This cartoon appears in “Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical – Revisited,” quant-ph/0306072 by W. Zurek [This is a “remodeling” of his influential 1991 Physics Today article].
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Rudolph Marcus (1923-2026): theoretical chemical physicist
Rudolph Marcus died last week. He was 102. There is a nice obituary in The New York Times . He was best known for his theory of electron tra...
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