It happened on JUNE 16

1746
Giuseppe Piazzi was born in Ponte in Valtellina (Italy). A priest and astronomer, he founded and directed what is now known as the Palermo Astronomical Observatory. He also directed the construction of the observatories in Naples and Capodimonte. Piazzi also published a catalogue of 6,748 stars, the Praecipuarum stellarum inerrantium positiones mediae ineunte saeculo XIX.
1962

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to fly into space. She piloted a spacecraft for the U.S.S.R., just one year after the first ever cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, also a Russian, did so.
 

1977

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun died in Alexandria (Virginia). An astronautics engineer, during World War II he directed a group of scientists who designed and built the V1 and V2 combat rockets that were used by the Germans against the Allies. In 1945, he and his scientific team surrendered to the Americans and were transferred to the United States where he turned his engineering talents toward aerospace engineering, becoming the first director of NASA, from 1958 through 1972. In his writings and lectures he was an ardent supporter of a futurist vision of mankind, which he saw as being achieved through ever wider spatial horizons.

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On the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology


Readings on Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction, by Gabiele Coci

Matter and Light. The New Physics (1937), by Louis de Broglie

The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science (1970), by Werner Heisenberg

Quantum Mechanics (2002), by John Polkinghorne, from INTERS 

Faith and Quantum Theory (2007), by Stephen Barr

Quantum Mechanics. Philosophical and Theological Implications (2019), by Javier Sánchez Cañizares, from INTERS


Articles of Historical Interest

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (1935), by A. Einstein, B. Podolski, N. Rosen

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox (1964), by J.S. Bell

Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities (1982), by A. Aspect, P. Grangier and G. Roger

Moreover…

Pursuing Scientific Humanism. Letters Between Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Cantore, 1967-1976, a forthcoming book edited by Claudio Tagliapietra, INTERS staff

    

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