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“Pauli’s difficulty was due to a colleague”: Enz (2002), p. 338.
“best wishes to you in this difficult time”: P/J [31P], June 3, 1940.
passed through the town of Lourdes: Hertha tells this story in her autobiographical account of those years in Pauli (1970).
initially been planned for only one year: The funding for his visit, from the Rockefeller Foundation, was scheduled to end in 1942. After some uncertainty, an arrangement was reached whereby Pauli’s salary for an extended stay was split between the Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation. See Enz (2002), p. 355.
“suffered very much—as for all émigré physicists”: Scherrer to Rohn, October 15, 1941, in Enz (1997), document II.48.
the department’s most important physicist: Personal communications from Professors Karl von Meyenn and Ulrich Mueller-Herold. Later in the war, when it was clear that Germany was losing, Scherrer collaborated with the Office of Strategic Services—the forerunner of the CIA—on a plot to kidnap Heisenberg. See Powers (2000). Scherrer retired from the ETH in 1960. He left no reminiscences and destroyed most of his personal papers.
take legal action against the ETH: Pauli to Wentzel, December 30, 1941: PLC3 [646]; see also the telegraph Pauli sent to Rohn on June 7, 1942 in Enz (1997), document II.62.
“The past years have been rather lonesome”: Pauli to Casimir, October 11, 1945: PLC3 [780].
“legal complications cannot work on military problems”: Oppenheimer to Pauli, May 20, 1943: PLC3[671].
nothing came of it: See PLC3, p. 166.
Franca had misgivings about her: Conversations of Karl von Meyenn with Franca Pauli.
“possibility of suicide in a desperate moment”: From the Dulles Archives, Princeton University. Quoted from Bair (2004), p. 492.
“as a footnote to a case of Jung’s”: Quoted from Bair (2004), p. 495 from a “Report” by Bancroft to Dulles. Dulles’s record in the war and its aftermath was exemplary. But instead of as a footnote to the case of Jung, he went down in history as a footnote to the failed invasion of Cuba in 1961. President John F. Kennedy forced him to resign as CIA director, thus ending a career in intelligence that began with a coterie of agents that included Carl Jung.
creative potential of the greatest complexity: Jung (1918), p. 14.
robbed science and culture of their spiritual foundations: See Drab (2005), p. 54.
“I have fallen afoul of contemporary history”: Jung to von Speyer, April 13, 1934: CL, Volume I.
“Well, I slipped up”: Jaffé (1971), p. 98.
Nobel Prize for his discovery of the exclusion principle: Bohr’s name is strikingly absent from the list of people over the years who nominated Pauli for a Nobel prize. Throughout their careers, the relationship between the two men was thorny. Perhaps what irked Bohr was the way in which Pauli’s early failures to derive the hydrogen molecule ion and the helium atom from Bohr’s theory of the atom seriously undermined it. Pauli’s later discovery of the fourth quantum number was one of the final pegs in its coffin. And his realization (as he tried to unravel the anomalous Zeeman effect) that all models of the atom with an inert core were wrong of course included Bohr’s. Pauli’s incessant criticisms too often annoyed Bohr—as dramatized in the spoof Faust in Copenhagen in which God stood for Bohr and Mephistopheles for Pauli. Indeed four years after Pauli’s death, Bohr chose to mention his high regard for Stoner’s work which he had, until then, kept to himself. In a shockingly unfair assessment of events some four decades earlier, he said: “Pauli was absolutely wonderful, but there was absolutely not a word that is new in the Pauli principle. This was all done by Stoner…one could have really called it the Stoner principle.” (Interview with Bohr