Some observations on the theory of electrons and atomic nuclei in solids
SEP 01, 1963
W. V. Houston, professor of physics and former president of the William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas, served in 1962 as president of the American Physical Society. The present article is based on his retiring presidential address before the Society, which was presented on January 24, 1963, at the annual APS meeting in New York City.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3051138
About thirty‐five years ago Pauli and Sommerfeld gave the theory of solids a new lease on life by applying Fermi statistics to the electrons in metals. In the last fifteen years this theory has developed into a full‐grown structure with countless ramifications.
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W. V. Houston, William Marsh Rice University, Houston.
© 1963 American Institute of Physics
