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Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others (Hardcover)
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Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others (Hardcover)
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This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius
physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in
physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in
Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew
all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very
much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and
Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Goettingen that was
right at the heart.Caught between two evils - Soviet Communism and
German National Socialism - she would have probably perished if it
were not for the brotherhood of physicists: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang
Pauli, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer
and many other noted scientists who tried to save friends and
colleagues (either leftist sympathizers or Jews) who were in mortal
danger of being entrapped in a simmering pre-WWII Europe.Using
newly discovered documents from the Houtermans family archive:
twenty three Pauli's letters to Charlotte Houtermans, her
correspondence with other great physicists, Charlotte's diaries,
interviews with her children, almost all documents presented in
this book are published for the first time.
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