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Parsing Science - Playing with Science History
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posted on 2018-10-31, 02:07 authored by Doug LeighDoug Leigh, Ryan WatkinsRyan Watkins, Jean-François GauvinAlmost lost to history, these toys quite literally put quantum mechanics at one’s fingertips. In episode 35, Jean-François Gauvin from Université Laval
in Canada, discusses how he came to understand the purpose and value of
unique toy blocks that ended up on his desk at Harvard University in
2014 as the director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI). His article “Playing
with Quantum Toys: Julian Schwinger’s Measurement Algebra and the
Material Culture of Quantum Mechanics Pedagogy at Harvard in the 1960s” was published in March 2018 in Physics in Perspective.
https://www.parsingscience.org/2018/10/30/jean-francois-gauvin/
