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UNCERTAINTY: EINSTEIN,
HEISENBERG, BOHR, AND THE
STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF
SCIENCE BY DAVID LINDLEY
Reviewed by Richard A. Blasband, M.D.
The story begins with the Scottish physician and clergyman, Robert Brown, who in
1827, saw through a microscope that pollen grains of the wildflower, Clarkia Pulchella,
endlessly jiggled about although there was no obvious reason why they should do so.
Interestingly, the plant was named by its discoverer, Meriweather Lewis, in 1806 for
his co-discoverer of the Northwest Passage, William Clarke. Make of this possibly
synchronistic pairing of the two discoveries what you will. Who knew?
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