Zum Paulischen Ausschliessungsprinzip. Offprint from Annalen d. Physik 10. Wentzel's copy.
Publisher Information: 1931.
Heisenberg, Werner (1901-76). Zum Paulischen Ausschließungsprinzip. Offprint from Annalen der Physik, 5th series, 10 (1931). 888-904pp. 221 x 145 mm. Without wrappers as issued. Lower margin a bit toned but very good. From the library of Gregor Wentzel (1898-1978), with his pencil signature on the front wrapper.
First Edition, Offprint Issue. Heisenberg’s paper on the Pauli exclusion principle—which states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins cannot occupy the same quantum state simultaneously within a quantum system—made use of Dirac’s theory of “holes” in dealing with non-relativistic problems of atomic and solid-state theory. Reviving Pauli’s 1925 suggestion that “some equivalence should exist between atomic systems having n electrons and those having n ‘holes’ with respect to closed shells,” Heisenberg “demonstrated the validity of the suggestion with the help of the (nonrelativistic) quantum field theory . . . Heisenberg thus threw light on some previously treated problems with the help of the concept of ‘holes’ that would become fruitful far beyond solid-state physics” (Mehra & Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, 6, p. 621).
This copy is from the library of Gregor Wentzel, who made notable contributions to quantum mechanics; he is best known for the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation for finding approximate solutions to linear partial differential equations with spatially varying coefficients. Cassidy & Baker, Werner Heisenberg: A Bibliography of his Writings, 1931e.
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