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The aim of this paper is to combine the intellectual and the psychosocial aspects. blurring the distinction between the conceptual and the anecdotal history of quantum mechanics. The full realization of the importance of such “anecdotal” factors leads to the revision of our understanding of the conceptual development itself. The paper concludes with the suggestion that a major part of numerous inconsistencies in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics are of a psychosocial origin.
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Beller, M. The conceptual and the anecdotal history of quantum mechanics. Found Phys 26, 545–557 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02071220
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02071220