More on Scientists’ Logos
Re: my post of scientists’ logos, a reader says, “I really don’t know the three that are above Borlaug.”They’re three 20th Century quantum physicists.
Werner Heisenberg (1927) is the best known of the three, largely for his Uncertainty Principle, which says that there is a limit to which we can know a particle’s momentum and positions. The process of observing something and nailing down its position changes its momentum. Conversely, if you know the particle’s momentum with great precision, you cannot know its exact location. See cartoon below.
This is kind of philosophical, when you think about it, in that it means that the observer and observed have a connection to one another. This has been explored in a number of wonderful movies including “What the Bleep Do We Know?”
Wolfgang Pauli is known for his Exclusion Principle, which states that two or more of a certain kind of subatomic particle (I won’t bore you with the details) cannot occupy the same quantum state.
Richard Feynman came along later in the century, and is best known for quantum electrodynamics, about which I know essentially zero.
