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Léon Brillouin

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Léon Brillouin

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Also known as Leon Brillouin, L. Brilli︠u︡ėn

French physicist (1889-1969)

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Born
1889
Works
28

Top works

  • A collection of papers by this author, consisting chiefly of reprints and clippings
  • Mesures en haute fréquence
  • La structure des corps solides dans la physique moderne
  • L'atom de Bohr
  • Les statistiques quantiques et leur application aux électrons libres dans les métauz

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Quotes

  • With Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the fundamental role of experimental errors became a basic feature of physics.
  • Both the uncertainty principle and the negentropy principle of information make Laplace's scheme [of exact determinism] completely unrealistic. The problem is an artificial one; it belongs to imaginative poetry, not to experimental science.
  • The laws of classical mechanics represent a mathematical idealization and should not be assumed to correspond to the real laws of nature. … We now have to realize that errors are inevitable (..) a discovery that makes strict determinism impossible.

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