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Dreams of a quantum pioneer
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Segré, Gino |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Journal: Physics World Born in 1900, Wolfgang Pauli's debut as a physicist came in 1921 with the publication of a review paper on relativity so thorough and incisive that Einstein wrote of it "No-one studying this mature, grandly conceived work would believe the author is a man of twenty-one". Three years later, Pauli formulated the exclusion principle that bears his name, and that forms the basis of atomic and molecular structure; this work earned him the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1930 he introduced the concept of the neutrino, which is central to modern elementary particle physics. By then, he had already become the key arbiter in the year-long discussions held in Copenhagen between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr that had led to the modern formulation of quantum mechanics. He was also the holder of a prestigious professorship in Zurich, Switzerland, where young physicists from around the world – including Felix Bloch, Max Delbruck, Lev Landau, J Robert Oppenheimer, Rudolf Peierls and Victor Weisskopf – were flocking to work with him. Hence, by the age of just 30, Pauli had already established himself as one of the 20th century's great physicists. |
| Related Links | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/22/09/37/pdf |
| Ending Page | 39 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| Starting Page | 38 |
| ISSN | 09538585 |
| e-ISSN | 20587058 |
| DOI | 10.1088/2058-7058/22/09/37 |
| Journal | Physics World |
| Issue Number | 09 |
| Volume Number | 22 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2009-09-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Physics World History and Philosophy of Science Quantum Mechanics Modern Elementary Wolfgang Pauli's Werner Heisenberg |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Physics and Astronomy |
