Die Allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik First Edition, Signed Presentation Copy

	Die Allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik First Edition, Signed Presentation Copy
	by Wolfgang Pauli	$8000.00 At Powells Books on 7-4-2008.

Features ISBN Number: 9781114748729 Author: Pauli, Wolfgang Publisher: Springer Verlag Location: Berlin Copyright: 1933 Edition Number: 1 Cover Type: Hardcover Written in: German Number of Pages: 272 Berlin, Springer Verlag, 1933. Offprint from Handbuch der Physik, 2d edition, Vol. XXIV, Book 1. 8vo, [83]- 272p., plain black cloth with gilt spine lettering retaining the original printed wrappers. "The General Principles of Wave Mechanics" was written when Pauli was 33 years old, a dozen years before he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945. This article was of such stature that it won praise at the time from Hermann Weyl and was reprinted twenty-five years later without revision in the next edition of the Handbuch, an almost unprecedented achivement (DSB). In addition to its own intrinsic value and scarcity (1 of c. 25 offprints given to Pauli by the publisher and marked "Nicht Im Handel" [not for sale]), this copy is of special interest because of the personal relationship of Pauli to Otto Laporte, the recipient, and the place and time where they met. Inscribed "Meinem Freund Otto mit herzlichen Grussen, von W. Pauli" (to my friend Otto with heartfelt greetings . .), Pauli sent it to his former schoolmate, Otto Laporte (1902-1971), then living in Michigan. In 1921, on the recommendation of Max Born, Laporte had gone to the University in Munich for advanced study with Arnold Sommerfeld. Only nineteen years old, Laporte encountered Pauli (two years his senior) who was then Sommerfeld's assistant, received help from him with his studies and became his friend. At that time Sommerfeld was considered the preeminent physics teacher in the world, having such students as Heisenberg, Wentzel and Fues in addition to Pauli and Laporte. Pauli received his doctorate in 1922 and Laporte in 1924. After finishing his studies in Munich, Pauli worked for a time in Germany and then spent his last thirty years in Zurich. Laporte's life took rather a different turn. Upon his graduation, Laporte was recommended for a Rockefeller fellowship in the U.S., spent two years at the National Bureau of Standards and in 1926 went on to an extremely successful teaching career at the University of Michigan. He worked there first in spectroscopy and later in fluid mechanics. He is remembered by the "Laporte Rule" in spectroscopy, posthumous membership in the National Academy of Sciences, an endowed chair in his name at Michigan and an annual Otto Laporte Memorial Lectureship in fluid dynamics. So, in the (likely) words of the immortal Dr. Rosenbach, "An incredibly fine copy!" A masterpiece in itself, intimately signed by a Nobel winner to a friend and significant colleague, and with extended ties to any number of the other greatest physicists in the twentieth century. Judging by the overall wear and multiple signatures, Laporte prized this and showed it to many friends. It seems inevitable that its next owner will do the same. Generalized wear to covers, particularly at extremities. Small repaired tear to backstrip. Wrappers browned with age and there are a few tiny corrections or check marks in the text. Signed three times by Laporte- on front endpaper and on two succeeding blanks. As mentioned above, shows signs of significant loving attention- VG-. Collier Brown, Powells.com Back To Top

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