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“flows into the Danube Canal”: Airmail letter, January 1959, from Hertha to Wolfgang, CERN Archive Collection, Document PLC Bi 120.
played “Silent Night” on the piano: Autobiographical statement by Hertha Pauli, in Guide to Catholic Literature, CatholicAuthors.com.
Pauli said no, but Hertha insisted: Peierls (1960), p. 175; and Cline (1987), pp. 136–137.
das U-boot (the submarine): Enz (2002), p. 15.
found out about his Jewish ancestry: Interview with Ewald by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, p. 15.
a chemist named Pascheles—who was in fact himself: I thank Karl von Meyenn for this story, which had been told to him by Pauli’s close friend Marcus Fierz.
speaking of herself as “half-Christian”: Communication from Drs. Susanne Blumesberger and Ursi Gabl, who have been researching Hertha Pauli’s papers at the Austrian National Library. See also Hertha Pauli’s biographical statement at CatholicAuthors.com. Even her publisher in New York City, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, was under the impression she was Catholic. See New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc. Records: Box 273 (General Correspondence Folder), particularly office memos from June 1970.
“With me everything is complicated”: Pauli to Jaffé, November 28, 1950: PLC4 [1172].
little personal correspondence: See the editorial note by Karl von Meyenn in PLC8, p. 1376.
the most beautiful theory ever formulated: In 1905 Einstein had discovered the special theory of relativity. It is “special” or restricted in that it covers only measurements made in laboratories moving at a constant speed in a straight line and does not include gravity. General relativity includes measurements made in laboratories moving in every direction, including a circle.
a paper on relativity theory: Pauli (1919).
increased as the war went on: PLC1, p. xxiv.
“There I have indeed made a mistake”: Jordan (1971), p. 33.
“I have with me a really astonishing specimen”: Sommerfeld to von Geitler, January 14, 1919; for facsimile go to www.irz-muenchen.de/~Sommerfeld/gif100/0584_01.gif.
“I find it impossible to understand how”: Weyl to Pauli, May 10, 1919: PLC1 [1].
“the sureness of critical appraisal”: Einstein (1922), p. 184.
at “the moment meaningless for physics”: Pauli to Eddington, September 20, 1923: PLC1 [45].
“not really as stupid as it may have sounded”: Hoyle (1994), p. 310. See also PLC8, pp. 1205–1206.
“laboratory fellow sufferer”: Pauli to Sommerfeld, September 29, 1924: PLC1 [64].
“eight o’clock in the morning”: Interview with Heisenberg by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, November 11, 1963, p. 28.
“a simple farmboy”: Born (1975), p. 212.
“it was nothing serious at all”: Interview with Heisenberg by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, November 30, 1962, p. 3.
“with great concentration and success”: Heisenberg (1971), p. 27.
“That helped me a lot”: Interview with Heisenberg by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, November 30, 1962, p. 8.
“I believed I was the best formalist of my time”: Interview with Pauli by Jagdish Mehra, February 1958, in Mehra and Rechenberg (1982), p. xxiv.
“toward the knowledge of the unity of the laws of the world”: Born (1923), p. 537.
“this confidence [in Bohr’s theory] was shaken”: Interview with Heisenberg by T. S. Kuhn, AHQP, November 2, 1963, p. 8.
“W. Pauli is now my assistant”: Born to Einstein, October 21, 1921, in Born (1971), p. 58.
“cannot bear life in a small city”: Born to Sommerfeld, January 5, 1923, in Sommerfeld (2004), p. 137.
“until the small hours of the morning”: Born (1975), p. 212.
“I shall never get another assistant as good”: Born to Einstein, November 29, 1921, in Born (1971), pp. 61–62.
“He also plays the piano very well”: Born to Einstein, April 7, 1923, in Born (1971), p. 75.
“All existing He[lium]-models are false”: Heisenberg to Pauli, March 26, 1923: PLC1 [34].
“I met Niels Bohr personally for the first time”: Pauli (1946), p. 213.
“Göttingen’s famous school of mathematics”: Heisenberg (1971), p. 38.
“somewhat Kabbalistic”: Sommerfeld (1923), p. 59; see also Pauli