Standing Together in Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters of Pauli, Einstein, Franck and Others

360 Pages·2017·36.756 MB·English

by  Misha Shifman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900–1958, author. | Shifman, Mikhail A., editor. |
Houtermans, Charlotte, 1899–1993. Correspondence. English. Selections.
Title: Standing together in troubled times : unpublished letters by Pauli,
Einstein, Franck and others / editor, M. Shifman, University of Minnesota, USA.
Description: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2017] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016053382| ISBN 9789813201002 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
ISBN 9813201002 (hardcover ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9789813201019 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
ISBN 9813201010 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900–1958--Correspondence. | Houtermans, Charlotte,
1899–1993--Correspondence. | Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900–1958--Friends and associates. |
Houtermans, Charlotte, 1899–1993--Friends and associates. |
Physicists--Germany--Correspondence. | Physicists--Germany--Biography.
Classification: LCC QC16.P37 A4 2017 | DDC 530.092/2--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053382
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Graphic design and cover by Polina Tylevich
Translation of letters written in German by Gerhard Ecker, Alexander
Tschernow, Elze Mueller, Annika Fjelstad, Alexander Khodjamirian,
and Roman Zwicky.
Permission to reproduce quotations from “No Time to be Brief” by
Charles Enz, and from “The Genius of Science. A Portrait Gallery”,
by Abraham Pais: Oxford University Press.
Permissionstoreproducedocuments, letters, andphotographsfromthe
Houtermans Family Archive:
Giovanna Fjelstad and Jan Houtermans
Permission to reproduce other documents:
Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen,
RGASPI, Moscow
Pauli Archive at CERN
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Contents
Preface xi
Part 1
Chapter 1 Pages of Wolfgang Pauli’s Biography 3
Chapter 2 Ascent: Charlotte Houtermans’ Life and Destiny 31
Part 2
Chapter 3 Pauli’s Letters 103
Part 3
Chapter 4 Gardens and Friendships by Charlotte Houtermans 147
Chapter 5 Other Letters 195
Part 4
Chapter 6 German Originals of Pauli’s Letters 293
Index 333
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To the memory of my dear friend
Stephen Gasiorowicz (1928-2016)
His journey to freedom started in 1939 in occupied Poland and ended in 1946 in
the US. It lasted for seven years, through the USSR, Romania, Turkey, Iraq,
Pakistan and India.
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