Quotes by K. V. Laurikainen, Beyond the Atom: The Philosophical Thought of Wolfgang Pauli

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“The prime number 137 had continuously occupied Pauli's mind. It is an approximate value for a constant appearing in the fine structure theory of atomic spectra which in its theoretical expression t...”
— K. V. Laurikainen, Beyond the Atom: The Philosophical Thought of Wolfgang Pauli
atoms fine-structure-constant history-of-science physics