What is an elementary particle?

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution:183-196 (1950)
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Schrödinger discusses what an elementary particle is. This essay originally appeared in the journal Endeavour.

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Erkenntnis und Irrthum.Ernst Mach - 1906 - The Monist 16:319.
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits.L. J. Russell - 1949 - Philosophy 24 (90):253 - 260.

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