International Congress for Physics [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. 1948.

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International Congress for Physics [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus. 1948.

Portrays participants at conference and other group activities such as a banquet and boat ride in Zurich, Switzerland in 1948. Attendees as they appear in the film, photographed by Medicus, include: Victor Weisskopf, Gian Carlo Wick, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, David Dennison, Wolfgang Gentner, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Luis Alvarez.

1 film reel (12 min.) : si., b&w ; 8 mm.

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Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

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International Congress of Physics (1948 : Zurich, Switzerland)

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Gentner, Wolfgang, 1906-....

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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 ...

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