Selected correspondence and related materials from the Wick archives, 1933-1945.

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Selected correspondence and related materials from the Wick archives, 1933-1945.

Photocopies of selected correspondence and related materials from the G. C. Wick Papers located at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Correspondents include: Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Emilio Segre, B. Pontecorvo, A. Sommerfeld.

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Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

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Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made tremendous contributions to his field, transforming accepted notions of atomic structure, helping to develop nuclear fission, and advocating for international cooperation in crafting responsible nuclear policy. Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1885 into a family that encouraged his academic pursuits. Christian Bohr, his father, was professor of physiology at the University of Copenhagen. Bohr credited his father for awakening hi...

Segrè, Emilio

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Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989). From the description of Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80714573 Educator, physicist; interviewee b.1905. From the description of Reminiscences of Emilio Segr'e : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527163 Emilio Gino Segrè is a nuclear physicist and discovered slow neutrons; the elements technetium, asta...

Pontekorvo, B. (Bruno), 1913-1993

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Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

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Physicist (quantum theory, quantum mechanics, uncertainty principle, unified field theory) and administrator. On the physic faculty at Universität Göttingen (1923-1924, 1925-1926); Kovenhavens Universitet (1924-1925, 1926-1927); Universität Leipzig (1927-1941); director, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (1941-1945); director, Max-Planck Institut für Physik (1946-1958); and director, Max-Planck Institut für Physik und Astrophysik (1958-1970). From the description of Papers. (U...

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

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Physicist (mathematical physics, atomic physics, theoretical physics, wave mechanics, quantum mechanics). On the mineralogy faculty at Georg-August Universität zu Göttingen (1893-1897); on the mathematics faculty at Technische Universität Clausthal (1897-1900); on the mechanics faculty at the Technische Hochschule zu Aachen (1900-1906); and on the physics faculty at Universität München from 1906. From the description of Papers, ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), ca. 1890-ca. 1950. (Un...

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

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Gian Carlo Wick (1909-1992), physicist. Served on the faculty of the University of Palermo (1937-1938); University of Padova (1938-1940); University of Rome (1940-1945); University of Notre Dame (1946-1948); University of California (1948-1950); Carnegie Institute of Technology (1951-1957); senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1957-1965); professor of physics at Columbia University (1965-). From the description of Selected correspondence and related materials from the ...