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Letter from G. Heckmann to G. Hermann, 17 December 1933

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This chapter is a translation by E. Crull and G. Bacciagaluppi of a letter of 17 December 1933 from Gustav Heckmann to Grete Hermann, principally detailing the reactions of Heisenberg and others to Hermann’s manuscript on ‘Determinism and Quantum Mechanics’, published for the first time (also in our translation) as Chap. 14 of this volume.

Translated from the German by Elise Crull and Guido Bacciagaluppi. From Nachlass Gustav Heckmann, private collection Dieter Krohn (also Nachlass Grete Henry-Hermann, Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, file 1/GHAJ000006), forthcoming (in German) in (Herrmann 2017, Part III, Letter 2). This letter was introduced to those present at the Grete Hermann Workshop by Dieter Krohn. During the conference’s panel discussion (cf. Chap. 11, pp. 191–193), Dieter read aloud excerpts from the letter and translated them into English on the spot.

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Notes

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    Dieter Krohn believes that ‘Dora’ is a reference to Minna Specht (eds.).

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    A postscript to this letter appears to be written in a different hand, and concerns mainly social arrangements (eds.).

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  • Herrmann K (ed) (2017) Grete Henry-Hermann: Philosophie–Mathematik–Quantenmechanik. Springer, Berlin

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    Gustav Heckmann

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  1. Department of Philosophy, The City University of New York, New York, New York, USA

    Elise Crull

  2. Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Guido Bacciagaluppi

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Heckmann, G. (2016). Letter from G. Heckmann to G. Hermann, 17 December 1933. In: Crull, E., Bacciagaluppi, G. (eds) Grete Hermann - Between Physics and Philosophy. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0970-3_13

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