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It emphasizes the strange nature of quantum theory, which is remarkably productive despite seeming unstable and fractured. Its mysteries are clearly not going to be resolved in the near future, which makes this handbook a launching point for future work rather than a summary of past efforts. * Matthew Stanley, Physics Today * Quantum mechanics is the basis for contemporary physics and our guide to technologies from the transistor to quantum computing, yet a century after its codification in 1926, debates rage over its physical meaning. The editors of this grand volume have assembled remarkable essays about the history and state of this theory like no other. Bravo! Physicists, historians and philosophers will plumb the riches here for decades. * Peter Galison, Director, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University *

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Olival Freire Jr is Professor of Physics and History of Science at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil. He is the author of The Quantum Dissidents (2015) and David Bohm: A Life Dedicated to Understanding the Quantum World (2019). In 2011 he co-edited Teoria quântica: estudos históricos e implicações culturais with Osvaldo Pessoa Jr. and Joan Lisa Bromberg and was awarded the Jabuti Prize in Science & Technology, the most important literary prize in Brazil.

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