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Quantum physics in America between the wars

JAN 01, 1968
Development of the Wigner–Seitz method for interpreting metallic structure, study of Brillouin zones and calculations of energy bands in solids led to new understanding of molecular theory and of electronic structure in crystals.
John C. Slater

MANY YOUNGER PHYSICISTS feel that all physics has grown up since World War II; or if they admit some earlier science, they feel that in this country everything started with the influx of European scientists as a result of political difficulties, beginning with the rise of Hitler in 1933, in Germany and Italy.

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References

  1. 1. J. C. Slater, Rev. Mod. Phys. 6, 209 (1934).https://doi.org/RMPHAT

  2. 2. E. U. Condon, G. Shortley, The Theory of Atomic Spectra, Cambridge University Press (1935).

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John C. Slater, MIT.

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