IFLP 13074
INSTITUTO DE FISICA LA PLATA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
The first works on Quantum Mechanics in Argentina
Autor/es:
M. C. VON REICHENBACH
Revista:
Physics in prespective
Editorial:
Birkhauser
Referencias:
Lugar: Boston; Año: 2008
ISSN:
1422-6944
Resumen:
Richard Gans (1880-1954) was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Physics of the National University of La Plata, Argentina, in 1912 and published a series of papers on quantum physics between 1915 and 1918 that marked him as the first quantum physicist in Latin America. I set Gans’s work within the context of his education and career in Germany prior to 1912 and his life and work in Argentina until 1925, as well as the foundation of the Institute of Physics of the National University of La Plata in 1906-1909 and its subsequent development by Emil Bose (1874-1911). I conclude by commenting on Gans’s life after he returned to Germany in 1925 and immigrated once again to Argentina in 1947.
