Re: [Phys-l] readings on quantum mechanics for general public by founders of QM?

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

On 04/23/2011 02:23 PM, Krishna Chowdary wrote:
> Please suggest essays, articles, or books by pioneers in quantum
> mechanics (I'm hoping for early pioneers, such as Planck, Bohr,
> Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli, etc.) about quantum mechanics that were
> intended for the general public at the time they were published.

Maybe not quite the earliest pioneer, but only a generation or so
later, there is Feynman.

Chapter 6 of _The Character of Physical Law_ is as close as you're
going to get to an accessible overview of QM.

  The other chapters are well worth reading also.