The Quantum Century Begins
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way
as to be understood by everyone, something that no one
even knew before. But in poetry, it's quite opposite” Paul Dirac
The Discovery of Quantum Noise
In 1918 Max Planck received the Nobel
Prize in Physics for his quantum theory of
blackbody radiation, or as we would say
now, quantum theory of thermal noise.
“If anyone says he can think about quantum problems without getting
giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them”