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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics

Quantum theory and the Nobel prize

02 Aug 2002

Personal prejudices and a lack of understanding by the Nobel-prize committee left the pioneers of quantum mechanics unrewarded until the discovery of antimatter in 1932.

Prize and prejudices
In 1933 the Nobel prizes seemed of little importance compared with the global economic depression an

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Robert Marc Friedman is professor of the history of science at the University of Oslo, PO Box 1008, Blindern, O315 Oslo, Norway, email robert.friedman@hi.uio.no
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