Related papers: Marietta Blau's Work After World War II
Marietta Blau was a Vienna born nuclear physicist who eventually became the leading expert in the photographic detection of ionizing particles. She studied physics at the University of Vienna, graduated in 1919. As of 1924, she adapted the…
This Introduction opens the book {\sl Standing Together in Troubled Times} which presents a story of friendship between Wolfgang Pauli, one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century, and Charlotte Houtermans. They met at…
Starting from the early works by Weizsaecker and Bethe about fusion cycles and energy conversion in stars, a brief survey of thermonuclear processes in stars leading to contemporary research problems in this field is given. Special emphasis…
Some time ago we came across a rather unknown and, in our opinion, intriguing paper by Otto R\"ossler on autocatalysis. That the paper is written in German might be one reason for having spent 50 years below the radar despite being of…
The goal of this modern presentation, followed by an English translation from the German, is to make available some parts of Lie's very systematic mathematical thought which deserve to join the contemporary literature, and above all also,…
The recently published book, ``Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age'', by Patricia Rife (Boston: Birkh\"{a}user, 1999) is reviewed in an essay for the lay audience. Meitner was a leading nuclear physicist at the time that the…
Revised translation of Kaluza's historic 1921 paper, "Zum Unit\"atsproblem der Physik," on 5-dimensional spacetime, used to unify gravity and electromagnetism. This version is based, in part, on a 1984 translation provided by T. Muta, but…
This is a somewhat modified version of Chapter 15 of the book "The Physics of Ettore Majorana", by Salvatore Esposito with contributions by Evgeny Akhmedov (Ch. 15) and Frank Wilczek (Ch. 14), Cambridge University Press, 2014.
The following is a translation of the paper by Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern that reported the first evidence for the quantisation of atoms in a magnetic field. The atoms have quantum states corresponding to a limited number of possible…
The life and accomplishments of Grete Hermann are described. During the early twentieth century, she worked in physics, mathematics, philosophy and education. Her most notable accomplishments in physics were in the interpretation of quantum…
Chapter from the book "Astrophysics", p.287-308. Edited by Ibrahim Kucuk, ISBN 978-953-51-0473-5, InTech, March 3, 2012.
A translation and discussion of G. Luders, Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 8 322-328 (1951).
These notes are based on the course given by Klaus Fredenhagen at the Les Houches Winter School in Mathematical Physics (January 29 - February 3, 2012) and the course "QFT for mathematicians" given by Katarzyna Rejzner in Hamburg for the…
I point out that the results stated in the recent articles on photon splitting by Wunner, Sang, and Berg and by Wentzel, Berg, \& Wunner directly contradict an earlier analytic and numerical calculation that I performed of the same process…
Chapter published in, "The Physics of Superconductors," Vol II, edited by Bennemann and Ketterson, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
A focused modernization of Sophus Lie's brilliant writings about the foundations of geometry that every contemporary geometer should have at least once a look at. Translated, updated, commented.
Editor's Note: An English translation of Wilhelm Weber's 1878 paper "Ueber die Energie der Wechselwirkung", [Web78b]. This work is an excerpt from Weber's seventh major Memoir on Electrodynamic Measurements, "Elektrodynamische…
An introduction describing Walter Greiner's scientific life for the topical volume to be published by EPJA
This article is a draft of a book chapter of the book entitled "Quantum Percolation and Breakdown", to appear 2008.
This is an invited contribution to be included in a multi-authored book on "Dark Energy", to be edited by Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente and published by Cambridge University Press.