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To: koan who wrote (44057)	10/15/2013 1:11:27 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

Hi koan; Pascual Jordan invented the mathematics used in quantum mechanics and wrote the first papers on the subject with Heisenburg and Born. Here's a short description of his Storm Trooper membership: quantum-theories.com I suppose you've heard of the "Heisenberg principle". Here's the wikipedia entry for Heisenberg Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. en.wikipedia.org The other (non matrix) version of quantum mechanics is called "wave formulation of quantum mechanics" and was invented by Schroedinger. Jordan got air brushed out of the history of quantum mechanics because he was an ardent Nazi. Hence many people have never heard of him. Born's name is used as the "correspondence principle" that allows one to compute probabilities. Born was Jewish and (being pretty smart) left Germany in 1936. Born considered that his paper with Jordan contained "the most important principles of quantum mechanics including its extension to electrodynamics." [31] en.wikipedia.org -- Carl P.S. My leaky memory is that it was Born who impressed his future British colleagues when they recalled that he had told them he would leave Germany 2 years before the inevitable war started. But there were other German jewish refugees and I could easily have confused him with another.