Pauli agrees with Weyl's incorporation of gravitation in Dirac's theory of the electron, and with his rejection of Fern-parallelisme. He writes about as yet unsolved difficulties of Dirac's theory and two-component theory. He writes about field quantization.
Sans titreCopenhagen, Denmark
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Bohr thanks Pauli for his congratulations on his 65th birthday. He writes about the double role of a human being as an observer and as an actor in the theatre of life. He also speaks of the preparation of an article on free will and life, and of a book based on his Grifford lecture.
Sans titreBohr does not agree with Pauli's and Heisenberg's criticism of Thomas' work in: Nature : 117 (1926), pp. 514. He discusses the problem in detail and asks for further comments from Pauli.
Sans titreBohr will pass through Hamburg together with Klein on their way to Holland. He hopes that Pauli will join him on his way back to Copenhagen.
Sans titreMøller and Kristensen thank Pauli for his instructive letter. They answer the question he asked and give some details of their form factor theory.
Sans titreBohr has heard that Pauli developed new thoughts on the mystic of relativity in the atom theory and is asking for some developments.
Sans titreHeisenberg writes about Pauli's coming to Copenhagen. He reports on his recent work.
Sans titreBohr discusses Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck's work published in: Nature : 117 (1926), pp.264. Thomas has explained the missing factor of 2 by calculating the relativistic motion in: Nature : 117 (1926), pp.514. Thomas' note is enclosed.
Sans titreBohr comments on a book by A Pauly (1905) on "Darwinism and Lamarchism". Bohr gives his attitude to the great progress in biology and psychology made in recent time, in the light of the results of atomic physics as regards the description of phenomene.
Sans titreKällén thanks Pauli for an offprint of a paper by Pauli that is helpful for his calculations on the Lee model. He writes on the question of the unitary of the S-matrix in this model.
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