FERMI CONTACT INTERACTION

FERMI, E. (ENRICO).

Über die magnetischen Momente der AtomKerne.

Berlin, Springer, 1930. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 60, 1930. Entire volume offered. Stamp to title page and light wear to extremities, one leaf detached, otherwise fine and clean. VIII, 871 pp.

First appearance of Fermi's important paper on a quantitative theory of the hyperfine structures of spectrum lines which later was to be named 'Fermi Contact Interaction'. The present paper was considered one of his most important by the Nobel Prize commitee.
"Fermi contact interaction" is the magnetic interaction between an electron and an atomic nucleus when the electron is inside that nucleus.

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