HEISENBERG, WERNER. - THE CONSTITUTION OF MANY-ELECTRON ATOMS.

Zur Quantentheorie der Multiplettstruktur und der anomalen Zeemaneffekte. (Eingegangen am 10. April 1925).

Berlin, Julius Springer, 1925. Contemp. hcloth. In: "Zeitschrift für Physik. Hrsg. von Karl Scheel", 32. Band. VI,951 pp., textillustr. (Entire volume offered). Heisenberg's paper: pp. 841-860. A stamp to title-page and front free endpaper. Interally clean.

First printing of Heisenberg's importent paper on the complex spectra of many-electron atoms, - the third paper Heisenberg submitted from Copenhagen on the Quantum Theory.

"The paper on multiplet structure and anomalous Zeeman effects..., contained a complete discussion of the problem at that time. This paper had the blessing of Niels Bohr; also Pauli, who was in Copenhagen when the paper was completed, agreed with its overall content. The central goal of the paper was to formulate what Bohr called 'the stress (constraint), which is not analogous to the action of external forces' and to derive quantitative conclusions from it." (Mehra and Rechenberg "The Historical development of Quantum Theory", vol. 2, p. 201).

The volume contains another importent paper in the history of Quantum Physics: W. BOTHE und H. GEIGER "Über das Wesen des Comptoneffekts, ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Theorie der Strahlung", pp. 639-663.

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