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This fourteenth volume in the Poincaré Seminar Series is devoted to Niels Bohr, his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory and their continuing importance today. This book contains the following chapters: - Tomas Bohr, Keeping Things Open; - Olivier Darrigol, Bohr's Trilogy of 1913; -John Heilbron, The Mind that Created the Bohr Atom; - Serge Haroche & Jean-Michel Raimond, Bohr's Legacy in Cavity QED; - Alain Aspect, From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: a NewQuantum Revolution?; - Antoine Browaeys, Interacting Cold Rydberg Atoms: A Toy Many-Body System; - Michel Bitbol & Stefano Osnaghi, Bohr´s Complementarity and Kant´s Epistemology. Dating from their origin in lectures to a broad scientific audience these seven chapters are of high educational value.

This volume is of general interest to physicists, mathematicians and historians.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14316-3

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Bohr's trilogy of 1913

Darrigol Olivier

1-11

On the constitution of atoms and molecules

Bohr Niels

13-33

Keeping things open

Bohr Tomas

35-53

The mind that created the Bohr atom

Heilbron John L.

55-101

Bohr's legacy in cavity QED

Haroche Serge; Raimond Jean-Michel

103-146

From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and feynman

Aspect Alain

147-175

Interacting cold rydberg atoms

Browaeys Antoine; Lahaye Thierry

177-198

Bohr's complementarity and Kant's epistemology

Bitbol Michel; Osnaghi Stefano

199-221