"Physics Thursdays."

As part of the series of educational-disciplinary seminars "Physics Thursdays," organized by the Museum of Physics of the Natural and Physical Sciences Museum Center, to commemorate the centenary of quantum mechanics,
on Thursday, Dec. 4, Professor Salvatore Esposito of the Department of Physics "E. Pancini" will hold a seminar titled: 'From Planck to Heisenberg: thirty years that shook physics.'

The meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum of Physics at 8 Mezzocannone Street.

To solve a very practical problem, in the year 1900 Max Planck introduced a hypothesis that later proved revolutionary for all of physics.
Corroborated by increasingly stringent experimental evidence about the microscopic world, it led in less than thirty years to a new formulation of the laws of physics that still reveal all their astonishing potential today. This seminar will retrace the main stages of that tortuous and unexpected path that led to the discovery of quantum physics, which today governs most of our daily lives.