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The title of my address, so kindly provided by the leadership of this conference, clearly indicates that I should be principally concerned with the role which the symmetry and invariance principles play in quantum mechanics, with their applications and effectiveness — it was precisely 50 years ago that these were recognized. Nevertheless, I like to say a few words about the role of symmetry principles in pre-quantum theory because the comparison of this role with the role played by the same principles at present seems to me very interesting.
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Wigner, E.P. (1997). Fifty Years of Symmetry Operators. In: Wightman, A.S. (eds) Part I: Particles and Fields. Part II: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. The Scientific Papers, vol A / 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09203-3_32
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