No Time to Be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli

by Charles P. Enz

Book Overview

This book retraces the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyzes his scientific work, and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, which occupy a central place in this biography. It would be
incomplete, however, without a rendering of Pauli's sarcastic wit and, most importantly, of the world of his dreams. It is through the latter that quite a different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198564791
• ISBN13: 9780198564799
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"