Digital Essays in the History of Quantum Physics

本计画将开发一种新型的数位学术研究出版物-数位论文。数字论文不仅仅是标准印刷文章与超链接和标签浏览器技术的适应。相反，它是一个充分提供的环境，包括访问给定主题的主要和次要来源的创建;书目数据库;来源整体的多个视图;理论，实验和史学教程;以及一系列模块化的解释性文章，这些文章是从不同的角度为不同的受众撰写的，可以通过多种途径而不是以一种固定线性排序。智力价值两个密切相关的主题已被选择为发展成数字论文。它们是量子物理学历史和基础项目的核心，这是由马克斯·普朗克学会弗里茨·哈伯研究所和马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所共同发起的对量子物理学历史和基础感兴趣的研究人员的国际合作。第一个主题是所谓对应原理的诞生、发展和转变。二是从旧量子理论中的色散理论向矩阵力学的过渡（特别注意美国物理学家斯莱特和货车弗莱克的贡献）。从这些要素中可以看出这个项目的智力价值。它将提供从旧的量子理论过渡到现代量子力学的新视角，允许无限的深度和广度的分析，立即和完整的访问相关的源材料，并为新手，一个分级，但诚实和严格的开始（由于大量使用第一手资料）一直通向当前的技术状态。潜在的更广泛的影响因为在上面概述的意义上的数字论文的想法和伴随的数字化工具是创新的和通用的，预计该项目将产生变革性影响，不仅提供前所未有的丰富的有组织资源，而且鼓励其他人开始探索这种新的学术出版模式的可能性，这有可能促进研究人员以广泛的跨学科方式就新的和现有的数字项目进行合作。它还可能导致发展全新的方法来进行学术研究和传播将适用于各种各样的调查领域的结果。

IntroductionThis project will develop a new type of digital publication for scholarly research, the digital essay. The digital essay is not simply an adaptation of standard printed articles to the technology of the browser with hyperlinks and tabbing. Rather, it is the creation of a fully supplied environment that includes access to primary and secondary sources on the given topic; a bibliographic data base; multiple views of the totality of sources; tutorials on theory, experiment, and historiography; and a collection of modular interpretive articles that are written from a variety of points of view for diverse audiences and that can be traversed via multiple pathways rather than in a fixed linear ordering. Intellectual MeritTwo closely related topics have been chosen for development into digital essays. They are central to the Project in History and Foundations of Quantum Physics, an international cooperation of researchers interested in the history and foundations of quantum physics initiated jointly by the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The first topic is the birth, development, and transformation of the so-called Correspondence Principle. The second is the transition from dispersion theory in the old quantum theory to matrix mechanics (with special attention to the contributions of American physicists Slater and Van Vleck). From these elements emerge the intellectual merits of this project. It will provide new perspectives on the transition from the old quantum theory to modern quantum mechanics by permitting unlimited depth and breadth of analysis, immediate and complete access to the relevant source materials, and, for the novice, a graded, yet honest and rigorous initiation (because of the heavy use of primary sources) leading all the way up to the current state of the art.Potential Broader ImpactsBecause the very idea of the digital essay in the sense outlined above and the attendant digital tools are innovative and versatile, the project can be expected to have a transformative impact not only in providing an unprecedented richness of organized resources but also in terms of encouraging others to begin to explore the possibilities of this new mode of scholarly publication, which is likely to facilitate collaborations between researchers on new and already existing digital projects in a broadly interdisciplinary manner. It may also lead to the development of entirely new methods for conducting scholarly research and transmitting results that will be applicable to a wide diversity of fields of inquiry.