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Quotes from Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist — Rudolf Peierls

1907–1995 Germany

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At about this same time Dirac wrote a paper that proposed a general theory of how measurements should be described in quantum mechanics. Similar work was also done by P. Jordan in Göttingen. These two papers constitute what is called transformation theory, because they show how one can transform information gained by measuring one quantity into predicting information about another.

Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist (1985)

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