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A Romantic Genius? The Experience of Knowledge that Shaped Werner Heisenberg's Scientific Persona

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In 1976, the year that Werner Heisenberg passed away, Armin Hermann published a short biography, titled Werner Heisenberg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Since then, historians and biographers have offered their accounts on Heisenberg's life and his contributions to modern physics. Many of these biographies present Heisenberg as a genius.
Elena Schaa
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Transition in Residues: On Depleted Oil Wells, Radioactive Geophysics, and the Origins of the Twentieth Century's Energy Mix

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
The oil and uranium industries always have been intertwined. Both industries are inherently global and span an extensive geological history. The formation of uranium and oil deposits, and their eventual extraction, is a story circling through early planetary history, continuing in depleted oil wells in Germany, Canada, and France, and lingering well ...
Michiel Bron
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The Curious Concept That Almost Nobody Seemed to Care About at First: Virtual Particles in the Post‐War Period**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Abstract Short‐lived, unobservable, and not subject to the usual rules of conservation of energy and momentum, virtual particles—an integral part of the conceptual framework of quantum field theory (QFT)—exhibit a number of curious characteristics which, in recent decades, have in part fueled important discussions about their ontological status ...
Jean‐Philippe Martinez
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Schrödinger's Doctrine of Identity: On the Role of Advaita Vedānta in Erwin Schrödinger's Thought

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Ever since Erwin Schrödinger learned about Indian thought through Arthur Schopenhauer, it occupied a visible role in both his published writings and personal books. Schrödinger called for a “blood transfusion” of Indian thought into the West and, in one notebook, construed the Upaniṣadic slogan “Brahman = Atman” as the “closest thing to the truth ...
Thijs M. K. Latten
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Recent Advances in Achieving High Energy/Power Density of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries for Current and Near‐Future Applications

open access: yesBattery Energy, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively addresses challenges impeding the current and near‐future applications of Li–S batteries, with a special focus on novel strategies and materials for achieving high energy/power density. Additionally, potential areas for practical applications are explored, placing special emphasis on their lightweight, high energy/power ...
Junyoung Heo   +9 more
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