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“contradict me with detailed arguments”: Pauli to Kronig, November 22, 1927: PLC1 [175].
“reinvigorate my interest in physics”: Pauli to Bohr, January 16, 1929: PLC [214].
“I would like to meet you. Scherrer”: Postcard written June 4, 1928: PLC1 [199]. In 1933 Jordan openly declared his membership in the National Socialist (Nazi) party and became a Storm Trooper. This was no doubt why he never received a Nobel Prize. During the war Jordan worked for the Nazi advanced-weapons program at Peenemünde.
Afterward Pauli stood up for his former pal “PQ–QP,” and urged his reinstatement into academia, which occurred in 1953, paving the way for Jordan’s return to the University of Hamburg. Soon afterward he was elected to the German parliament in the Adenauer days, as a member of the right-wing Christian Democratic Party. In this capacity he lobbied for arming the Bundeswehr with tactical nuclear weapons. Born, Heisenberg, and Pauli, among other scientists, strongly protested. As Pauli pungently put it, “Alas, good Jordan! He has served all regimes in utmost faithfulness” (Enz [2005], p. 47).
“he is already asserting the opposite”: Peierls (1985), pp. 46–47.
“and psychoanalysis as a vocation”: Quoted from Pais (2006), pp. 17–18.
“Not for the curious”: Wentzel (1960), p. 51. The two papers are Heisenberg (1929, 1930). See Miller (1995), chapter 3, for details.
“rather introspective—i.e., Buddha-like”: Pauli to Kronig, December 22, 1949: PLC3 [1067].
“Jew from the waist up”: Interview with Igal Talmi by the author, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, January 24, 2007.
married only in a very “loose way”: Pauli to Klein, March 10, 1930: PLC2 [243a].
“This gave him great satisfaction”: Interview with Käthe Deppner by Jagdish Mehra, March 12, 1974, in Mehra and Rechenberg (1982), p. xxxvii.
“but with an average chemist”: Interview with Franca, who was Pauli’s second wife, by Charles Enz, March 21, 1971, in Enz (2002), p. 211.
“vehemently plagued by jealousy”: Weyl to Hecke, May 28, 1930: PLC5, p. xxi.
Käthe married her chemist, Paul Goldfinger: After the war, from time to time, Käthe used to show up unexpectedly at Pauli’s home in the small town of Zollikon, just outside Zürich. Franca did not at all appreciate this and refused to let her in, so Pauli went on long walks with her. Interview with Karl von Meyenn by the author, November 14, 2006.
plus the discharged electron: At the time physicists were debating about whether there were electrons as well as protons inside the nuclei of atoms. But this model of the nucleus led to certain properties that clashed with those measured in the laboratory. The discovery of the neutron, in 1932, clarified the situation. The neutron has about the same mass as the proton and the same spin, but it has no electric charge. In beta-decay the neutron transforms itself into an electron, a proton, and a neutrino, and the electron is immediately expelled from the nucleus.
“We must still be prepared for new surprises”: Bohr (1930), p. 371.
“that something was missing”: Interview with Igal Talmi by the author, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, January 24, 2007.
“which further behaved foolishly”: Pauli to Delbrück, October 6, 1958: PLC8 [3075].
a ball at the splended Baur au Lac: Pauli to Meitner et al., December 4, 1930: PLC2 [259].
“But under ‘dryness’ I don’t suffer at all”: Pauli to Peierls, July 1, 1931: PLC2 [279].
“until my bones are whole again—very tedious”: Pauli to Peierls, July 1, 1931: PLC2 [280].
“like a traffic cop signalling”: Tippys to Goudsmit, August 19, 1931: PCL2, p. 84.
inverse Pauli effect: Quoted from PCL2, p. 84.
raised his hand in a “Heil Hitler” salute: Quoted from PLC2, p. 84.
“second-order acquaintances”: Pauli to Wentzel, September 7, 1931: PLC3 [283a].
“very simple and very neat here”: Pauli to Wentzel, September 7, 1931: PLC3 [283a].
“Your old Pauli”: Pauli to Wentzel, September 7, 1931: PLC3 [283a].
“two problematic temperaments”: Pauli to Weisskopf, December 30, 1940: PLC3 [615].
“increase her publicity with your help”: Pauli to Delbrück,