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"This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emerg...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Göttingen that was right at the heart. Caught between two evils -- Soviet Communism and German National Socialism -- she would have probably perished if it w |
| Carrier Form: | xxii, 337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789813201019 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 9813201010 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9789813201002 (hardback : alkaline paper) 9813201002 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QC16 |
| CLC: | K835.166.11 |
| Call Number: | K835.166.11/P327 |
| Contents: | Pages of Wolfgang Pauli's biography -- Ascent: Charlotte Houtermans' life and destiny -- Pauli's letters -- Gardens and friendships by Charlotte Houtermans -- Other letters -- German originals of Pauli's letters. |