Physicists I have known
SEP 01, 1974
Although the boy had just completed high school, Sommerfeld allowed him to enroll in his course. “May I also come to the seminar?” asked Pauli. Reminiscences of the heroic age of physics.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3128864
My first encounter with science came when I was eleven. My mother and I were living in Berlin, but often spent summer vacations with friends in Cambridge, England. In their house we met Siegfried Ruhemann, holder of the first chair in organic chemistry in England, at Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College.
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Paul P. Ewald, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York, retired.
© 1974 American Institute of Physics
