By Ethan Wang ’26
The recent release of the movie “Oppenheimer” provides an opportunity for us in this, the third in our series of Quantum Bootcamp columns (here are columns One and Two), to discuss a bit of the history of quantum physics and Princeton University’s role in it. Let me take you on a brief journey from the edge of research on quantum mechanics and its still-debated philosophical questions—i.e. Wigner’s Friend—back to its foundational physicists who made Princeton a hotbed of quantum mechanics.