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Quantum quartet is on the cards

25 Sep 2017 Hamish Johnston
Playing cards of Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg
Quantum pair: Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg. (Courtesy: Sabine Hossenfelder)

By Hamish Johnston

Theoretical physicist and blogger Sabine Hossenfelder has created a lovely set of cards featuring pioneering quantum physicists. You can see my two favourites above.

Resembling football or baseball cards, they each feature a portrait plus a fact or two about the physicist – including a salacious aspect of Erwin Schrödinger’s personal life. You will have to go to Hossenfelder’s blog to learn more about that – and see the rest of the cards, including a feline “Bra-ket” as the joker of the deck.

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