XLVI National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Physics and Astronomy

Session

Keynote Speech

15 Sept 2026, 09:30

Auditorium Ernesto Capocci (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte)

Conveners

Keynote Speech

• Valeria Zanini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

62. Revisiting the Long History of Quantum Theory

Renn, Jürgen (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology)

15/09/2026, 09:30

The Physics of the Cat

This paper presents results and methods from a collaborative international research project on the history of quantum physics. The project builds on decades of work on various aspects of the field's development, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. It aims at a synthesis of this century-long history, drawing on the research to dispel popular myths and give a...