Zur Frage der Zuordnung der Komplexstrukturterme in starken und in schwachen äußeren Feldern. Offprint inscribed to Kramers
Publisher Information: 1924.
Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958). Zur Frage der Zuordnung der Komplexstrukturterme in starken und in schwachen äußeren Feldern. Offprint from Zeitschrift für Physik 20 (1924). 371-387pp. 227 x 158 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit worn and soiled, small splits in spine. Very good. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by Pauli to H. A. Kramers on the front wrapper: “Seinem lieben Freund H. A. Kramers mit dem Motto: “Glucklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zuändern ist.”
First Edition, Offprint Issue. Pauli’s second paper on the anomalous Zeeman effect, showing “that Landé’s association of the quantum numbers in the cases of weak and strong fields . . . could be derived from the rules of the old quantum theory” (Enz, p. 770). The anomalous Zeeman effect, in which certain spectral lines in a magnetic field split into four rather than three, defied the predictions of classical physics. Pauli began investigating this puzzling phenomenon in 1922 while working in Bohr’s laboratory in Copenhagen, continuing his researches after his return to Germany in the fall of 1923. His work on the Zeeman effect eventually resulted in the formulation of the famous Pauli exclusion principle (1924-25), for which he received the 1945 Nobel Prize in physics.
Pauli presented this copy of his paper to Dutch physicist H. A. Kramers (1894-1952), one of the main architects, along with Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Pauli, of quantum mechanics. Pauli became friends with Kramers during his time in Copenhagen, where Kramers worked for many years as Bohr’s assistant. Pauli’s inscription can be translated as “To his dear friend H. A. Kramers with the motto: ‘Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed.’” Enz, “W. Pauli’s scientific work,” in J. Mehra, ed., The Physicist’s Conception of Nature, pp. 766-799.
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