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A lecture delivered under the title: “The Unity of Physics” at the Convention of Physicists in Munich, 1966. Published in Physikalische Blätter, 23 (1967): 4–14, and (in English) in Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. V (Dordrecht, Holland, and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969): 460–470. This lecture takes up the theme of the unity of Physics, with emphasis on questions of interest to a wide cross section of physicists. Section 6.3 points to “Quantum Theory” in this volume.
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This text was first published as: “A Sketch of the Unity of Physics”, in: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980), which is a translation of: Die Einheit der Natur, (Munich: Hanser, 1971): II.4.
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In German ‘abgeschlossene Theorie’, which means ‘closed’ as well as ‘completed’ (ed.MD).
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von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, 1980: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux).
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2014). A Sketch of the Unity of Physics. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03668-7_6
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