1. Context
The birth of thermodynamics in the early twentieth century
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century, as an experimental science, was rapidly followed by its theoretical development as a phenomenological science. At the end of the
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century, all the laws of thermodynamics had been developed; and with the
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century, the theoretical development of quantum mechanics (QM) began, with the rapprochement of thermodynamics leading to Planck's law, and the birth of quantum theory. Following Planck's ideas on black-body radiation, Einstein in 1905 proposed the quantization of the electromagnetic field
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Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete ?
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Physical Review, vol. 47, p. 777-780 (1935).
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