The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979.

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The first ten years of John Slater's scientific career, ca. 1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83857765

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck discusses Slater's educational career at Harvard University, where they were both students in the 1920s, and the first few years following Slater's Ph. D. The account is anecdotal and describes: the classes Slater and Van Vleck took under Percy Bridgman and Edwin Kemble in quantum theory, life in the physics department at Harvard, Slater's Ph. D. thesis on alkali halides, his post-doctoral work in Europe (at the University of Cambridge and in Copenhagen, where he worked with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers), Slater's position on the Harvard faculty after his return from Europe, his early publications and research, and the development of quantum theory and Slater's role in it.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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