“Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.”
about the electron, in [Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 0-226-80794-0, 60]
Shin’ichirō Tomonaga war ein japanischer Physiker. Er erhielt 1965 zusammen mit Richard P. Feynman und J. Schwinger den Physik-Nobelpreis „für ihre fundamentale Leistung in der Quantenelektrodynamik, mit tiefgehenden Konsequenzen für die Elementarteilchenphysik“. Wikipedia
“Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.”
about the electron, in [Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 0-226-80794-0, 60]
“…a bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.”
about Ralph Kronig's criticism on Samuel Goudsmit's proposal of a self-rotating electron, inflicting the same reaction to Goudsmit as Kronig had been incurred from Wolfgang Pauli [Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 0-226-80794-0, 217]