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The Role of the Exclusion Principle for Atoms to Stars: A Historical Account
Norbert Straumann
In a first historical part I shall give a detailed description of how Pauli discovered --before the advent of the new quantum mechanics -- his exclusion principle. The second part…
quant-ph2001
Schroedinger discovery of wave mechanics
Norbert Straumann
Schroedinger's great discovery of wave mechanics in 1926 - his annus mirabilis - is discussed in detail. Beside the six most important papers that appeared during the first half of…
quant-ph2000
".. I didn't reflect much on what I was doing.." How Planck discovered his radiation formula
Domenico Giulini, Norbert Straumann
On December 14. 1900, Max Planck communicated his derivation of his radiation formula, which he later called ``an act of desperation''. This date is widely recognized as birthday o…