Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1962 November 30 to 12 July 1963.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

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Physicist Richard Feynman won his scientific renown through the development of quantum electrodynamics, or QED, a theory describing the interaction of particles and atoms in radiation fields. As a part of this work he invented what came to be known as "Feynman Diagrams," visual representations of space-time particle interactions. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, together with J. Schwinger and S. I. Tomonaga, in 1965. Later in his life Feynman became a prominent public fig...

Franck, James, 1882-1964

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James Franck was born August 26, 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, where his Sephardic Jewish forebears had lived for over two hundred years [Box 20, folder 58 and Box 21, folder 1]. His father, Jacob Franck, was a banker who wanted his son to follow a business career in keeping with family tradition. From childhood on, however, James could imagine no other life but science. An X-ray photograph illustrates his fascination with new discoveries in physics. He had already read of Roentgen's X...

Universität Göttingen.

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Universität München.

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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...

Dirac, P.A.M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

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Physicist (quantum mechanics, positron, antimatter). On the physics faculty at University of Cambridge, 1932-1969; member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1934-1935, 1946, 1947-1948, 1958-1959; and on the physics faculty at Florida State University, 1971-1984. Died 1984. From the description of P. Dirac and I. E. Tamm correspondence. 1928-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80927792 From the description of Lectures on quantum electrodynamics: student notes on Dirac...

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

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John Clarke Slater was a physicist. He graduated from Harvard (Ph. D. 1923) and continued his studies at Cambridge University. He also studied in Copenhagen for six months under Niels Bohr, with whom Slater worked again in 1929 on the quantum theory. He returned to the United States in 1930 to become head of the department of physics at M.I.T., where he worked with Karl Compton to transform the study of physics there. From the description of Papers, 1908-1976. (American Philosophical...

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969

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Otto Stern was born in Germany, on February 17, 1888. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Breslau in 1912. In 1930 he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of California. In 1933 he moved to the United States where he was appointed a Research Professor of Physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh where he remained until 1945. His work was in the field of theoretical experimental physics, especially statistical thermodynamics and quantum theory, on which he has publish...

Voigt, Woldemar, 1850-1919

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German physicist and professor. Major affiliations: Universität Königsberg, Konigsberg, Germany 1875-1883; Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 1883-1919. Research in crystallography, thermodynamics, magneto-optics, and electronics. From the description of Letters to various scientists, 1875-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79617758 German physicist and progessor. Major affiliations: Universität Königsberg, Konigsberg, Germany 1875-1883; Georg-A...

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...

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...

Born, Max, 1882-1970

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Physicist (solid state physics, quantum mechanics, lattice dynamics, wave functions, molecules). On the physics faculty at Universität Göttingen (1908-1914, 1921-1933); Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (1914-1919); and University of Edinburgh (1936-1956). From the description of Lecture notebooks, 1905-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79287462 From the description of Papers, ca. 1945-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77749891 From the description of P...

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

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Victor F. Weisskopf, Ph.D., University of Gottingen, Germany, 1931, was professor of Physics at MIT from 1946 until his retirement in 1974. He was director general of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1961 to 1965. Weisskopf's research focus was theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics and nuclear particle physics. Other major affiliations include: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA, 1937-1943; Los Alamos, NM, USA, 1943-1947. Fro...

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was...

Chew, Geoffrey F

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Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

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Pysicists (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet (1922-1923); Universität Hamburg (1923-1928); and Eidgenössische Ttechnische Hochschule Zürich (1928-1958); and visiting professor, Institute for Advanced Study (1935-1936, and from 1940). From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83030815 Physicist (theoretical, atomic, and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at Kobenhavns Universitet, 1922-19...

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

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Van Vleck died in 1980. From the description of Nobel Prize and Lorentz Medal information, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78291608 From the description of The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83857765 Physicist. Died in 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with J. H. Van Vleck, 1966 February 28 and 1973 January 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77805000 J. H. Van ...

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

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Died 1978. From the description of Oral history interview with Karl F. Herzfeld, 1978 May 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77898623 From the description of Oral history interview with Karl F. Herzfeld, 1962 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78112200 Dr. Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, 1892-1978, was a noted physicist, author, educator, and humanitarian. Born in Vienna, Austria, on February 24, 1892, he received his primary education from the Benedictines. He contin...

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Kuhn, Thomas S.

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Cherwell, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount, 1886-1957

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Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

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Died in 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Gregory Breit, 1975 December 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865399 Physicist (quantum theory, nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics). National Research Council Fellow, University of Leiden (1921-1922), and at Harvard University (1922-1923); on the physics faculty at University of Minnesota (1923-1924); on the staff of Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution (1924-1929); on the physics facu...

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

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Physicist Arthur Holly Compton worked as a research engineer at Westinghouse Lamp Co. (1917-1919) and studied with Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England (1919). He taught physics at Washington University (1920-1923) and at University of Chicago (1923-1945) and served as Chancellor of Washington University from 1945-1953. From the guide to the Arthur Holly Compton notebooks, 1919-1941, 1919-1941, (American Philosophical Society) In 1920, Arthur Holly Co...

International Congress of Physics (1927: Como, Italy)

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Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

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Professor of physics at the University of Michigan. From the description of David M. Dennison papers, ca. 1927-1976. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421604 Died 1976. From the description of Oral history interview with David Mathias Dennison, 1964 January 27 to 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81273636 From the description of Informal moments, Summer Symposia at the University of Michigan [motion picture] / taken by David Dennison ; 193...

Københavns universitet. Institut for klassisk og nærorientalsk arkæologi

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Wien, W. (Wilhelm), 1864-1928

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Major affiliations: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, 1896-1899; Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany, 1899-1900; and Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. From the description of Correspondence with Max Planck, 1900-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83086297 Major affiliations include: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany, 1896-1899; Universität Giessen, Tiessen, Germany, 1899-1900; and Universität Würzbu...

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952

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Drude, Paul, 1863-1906

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Major affiliations include: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 1887-1894; Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 1894-1900; Ludwigs-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany, 1900-1905; Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 1905-1906. From the description of Letters to Otto Wiener, ca. 1896-ca. 1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77990752 ...

Rubinowicz, Wojciech

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Rubinowicz (1889-1974). Physicist (theory of radiation, quantum mechanics, mathematical physics). A. Sommerfeld's assistant in Munich, 1916-1918; professor in Lubljana, 1920-1922; Lwow, 1922-1941; higher schools and institutes in Warsaw, 1946-1974. From the description of Letters to Natanson, 1884-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77931101 Rubinowicz (1889-1974). From the description of Oral history interview with Wojciech Rubinowicz, 1963 May 18. (Unknown). W...

Gerlach, Walther, 1889-1979

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Professor of Physics, Tübingen University, 1924-1929. From the description of Selected papers. ca. 1930-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82693696 Physicist (quanatum theory, spectroscopy, spectral analysis, magnetism). On the physics faculty at Universität Tübingen (1924-1929); at Universität Frankfurt-am-Main (1920-1924); and at Universität München (1929-1957). He died in 1979. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80225683 ...

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

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Physicist. Died 1978. From the description of Papers, 1932-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80775309 Wentzel died in 1978. From the description of Autobiographical letter to Hugh Dryden, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81313307 ...

Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1944

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Universität Leipzig.

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Hilbert, David, 1862-1943

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German mathematician and professor, who discovered or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. He also formulated the theory of "Hilbert spaces," one of the foundations of functional analysis. He is also one of the founders of proof theory. For many years, he held a position at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Göttingen. From the description of Vorlesungen über die Funkti...

Runge, Carl, 1856-1927

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Mathematician and physicist. Studied University of Munich, University of Berlin (Ph.D. 1880, Habil. 1883). Techn. Hochschule Hannover, professor 1886; University of Göttingen, professor 1904-1924. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77663331 ...

Hardy, G.H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947

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Mathematician and Fellow of Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305994 ...

Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957

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Hanle, Wilhelm, 1901-....

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German with English translation. From the description of Transcript and translation of an interview with Wilhelm Hanle primarily about his reminiscences of Philipp Lenard, 1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82210860 ...

Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974

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M. A. (Cantab.) Fellow of King's College Cambridge. University lecturer in physics, Cambridge. Served with the Royal Navy, 1914-1919. Professor of Physics, Birkbeck College, University of London. Professor of Physics, University of Manchester. F. R. S. 1933. Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester University (1937). Air Defense Committee (1936) Head of the Physics Department at Imperial College, London (1953-1965); Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow, 1965-1974. He was awarded th...

Heilbron, J. L.

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Theoretical physicist Guido Beck studied physicis in Vienna and later worked in Brazil. From the guide to the Guido Beck interview transcript, 1967, 1967, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962

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Physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Correspondence with Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1923-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505991 Physicist (wave theory, quantum theory, x-ray diffraction) and administrator. On the physics faculty at Manchester University (1910-1914); on the mathematics faculty at University of Cambridge (1914-1922, 1936-1938); on the natural philosophy faculty at University of Edinburgh (1923-1936); director of the Na...

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

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Physical chemist (molecular structure, quantum theory, magnetism, polymers). On the physics faculty at Georg-August Universität zu Göttingen, 1913-1920; on the staff at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1910-1927; on the faculty at Universität Leipzig, 1927-1934; director, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik, 1935-1939; and professor and chair of the chemistry department, Cornell University from 1940. Died 1966. From the description of Holograph student notes, 1901, a...

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

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Landé, Alfred, 1888-

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Born in Elberfeld, Germany. University of Munich and Gottingen, Germany 1914. Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio 1931-1960. Died 1975. From the description of Alfred Lande's autograph collection 1919-1973 (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82245667 Physicist (quantum theory, spectra). On the physics faculty at the Universität Frankfurt-am-Main, 1919-1922; Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, 1922-1931; and Ohio State University from 1931. From the description...

Waerden, B.L. van der (Bartel Leendert), 1903-1996

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Majorana, Ettore

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Majorana (1906-1938) was a physicist (atomic physics, elementary particles). Professor of theoretical physics, Universit\a di Napoli 1937-1938. From the description of Papers, ca. 1927-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78844720 Physicist (atomic physics, elementary particles). Professor of theoretical physics, Università di Napoli, 1937-1938. From the description of Letter to Emilio Segrè, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78824386 Majorana (1906...

Pohl, Robert Wichard, 1884-1976

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Major affiliations include: Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Gottingen, Germany, 1917-1952. From the description of Letters and pictures, 1906-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80043957 From the description of Letters to James Franck, ca. 1920-ca. 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83225971 Major affiliations include: Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 1917-1952. From the description of Correspondence and pre-1945 instru...

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

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Elsasser died in 1991. From the description of Response to History of Geophysics Survey 1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80710094 Died 1991. From the description of Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1985 November 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82626096 From the description of Oral history interview with Walter M. Elsasser, 1962 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81330511 From the description of Oral history interview wi...

Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980

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Studied in Göttingen, 1922-1924; Ph.D 1924, Göttingen; 1926-1928 Privatdozent, Göttingen, Hamburg; 1929-1944 Professor of theoretical physics, U. of Rostock; 1944 Professor, University of Berlin; 1947-1970, Professor University of Hamburg; 1957-1961, member of German Parliament. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83770856 ...

University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Klein, Oskar, b. 1852

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Klein was born in 1894; died in 1977. From the description of From my life of physics, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82998081 Lifespan 1894-1977. From the description of Oral history interview with Oskar Benjamin Klein, 1962 September 25 to 16 July 1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80923394 ...

Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961

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Physicist; professor at the University of Zurich, Berlin, Oxford, Graz, Dublin, and Vienna. From the description of Collection of Irmgard Bertel. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80362499 Physicist. Professor at the Universities of Zürich, Berlin, Oxford, Dublin, Graz, and Vienna. From the description of Reprints, 1930-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82908049 Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist. From the description of Correspondence, 1925...

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

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Enrico Fermi was a physicist. From the description of Letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466015 From the guide to the Enrico Fermi letters, 1918-1926, to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926, (American Philosophical Society) Physicist. From the description of Papers of Enrico Fermi, 1919-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068165 Physicist (slow neutrons, artificial radioactivity, beta-ray emission, statistical mode...

Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933

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Nuclear physicist (statistical mechanics, applied quantum physics). On the physics faculty at Universität Wein (1900-1904); on the staff of Petrogradskii politeknicheskii (1907-1912); and on the physics faculty at Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden (1912-1933). From the description of Papers, 1902-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79973171 ...