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Letter-0552
Title
Letter from Heisenberg to Pauli
Date(s)
- 1939/05/01 (Creation)
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5 p, Paper, Handwritten The link for the full text of this letter leads to the webpage of the Heisenberg-Gesellschaft
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Pauli, Franca
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Heisenberg replies to Pauli's letter. He does not fully agree with Pauli that the inertia of self-energy of the spin is of the order (M.c)/h, because the absorptions of mesons indicate a much smaller cross-section for scattering by protons such as that of Bhabha-Heitler, and because the additional inertia does not change the nuclear forces. The spin-inertia plays a role only in the case of rapidly changing fields. He agrees with Pauli's remark on electron spin.
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Restricted
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German
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CDS Number
85214
Control Number
000035511ARC
Letter code
heisenberg_0017-128r