Traveling Fellow (1924-1925)
Curricula
The various institutions you visited during your post-doctoral year must have been rather different from Columbia and different from one another. What differences in approach to physics, emphasis on specific problems, etc., particularly struck you?
How were you received by both staff and students at these institutions? What was your position, e.g., did you attend lectures and seminars, participate in colloquial etc.? How did you arrange for your visits?
General WorkAs in II, B. we are much interested in your recollections of reactions to the great developments of 1925-26.
What can you tell us about responses to Heisenberg's initial paper, and the subsequent elaborations of Born and Jordan? In particular, how did you feel about the letter from Heisenberg you quoted in "The Turning Point?" Were you able to make much sense out of it? You must also have discussed it with Fermi on your skiing expedition in the winter of 1925-what did he then think about it? How did people in Copenhagen react?
How was Pauli's paper on the "exclusion principle" received? Was everyone as enthusiastic as yourself?
The various institutions you visited during your post-doctoral year must have been rather different from Columbia and different from one another. What differences in approach to physics, emphasis on specific problems, etc., particularly struck you?
How were you received by both staff and students at these institutions? What was your position, e.g., did you attend lectures and seminars, participate in colloquial etc.? How did you arrange for your visits?
General WorkAs in II, B. we are much interested in your recollections of reactions to the great developments of 1925-26.
What can you tell us about responses to Heisenberg's initial paper, and the subsequent elaborations of Born and Jordan? In particular, how did you feel about the letter from Heisenberg you quoted in "The Turning Point?" Were you able to make much sense out of it? You must also have discussed it with Fermi on your skiing expedition in the winter of 1925-what did he then think about it? How did people in Copenhagen react?
How was Pauli's paper on the "exclusion principle" received? Was everyone as enthusiastic as yourself?
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