By Laurie M. Brown, Lillian Hoddeson
Editors Laurie Brown and Lillian Hoddeson have introduced jointly a particular number of essays, discussions, and private descriptions of the evolution of particle physics according to the shows and discussions on the could 1980 overseas Symposium at the background of Particle Physics, held at Fermi nationwide Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. This assortment focuses totally on the advance of cosmic-ray physics and quantum box conception within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, ahead of the arrival of the nice postwar accelerators, and attracts on examine carried out within the usa, Italy, Japan, nice Britain, Germany, France, and the USSR.
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This separation is convenient and often is a calculational necessity; however, as Gregor Wentzel has remarked. it "not only appears contrary to the spirit of Maxwell's theory, but also raises questions from the view-point of reiativity theory ... the splitting is not [relativistically] invariant. ,,29 Thus, in 1929, Heisenberg and Pauli took up a task whose completion would require the best theoretical efforts of the next two decades: to connect, in a contradiction-free manner , mechanical and electrodynamic quantities, electro-magneto-static interaction.
Physik 56 (1929), 1-61 , and 59 (1930), 168-90. For the infinite self-mass of Heisenberg and Pauli , see J. R. Oppenheimer , "Two Notes on the Probability of Radiative Transitions, " Phys. Rev. 35 (1930) ,939-47, and I. Waller, " Bemerkungen liber di e Rolle die Eigen-energie des Elektrons in der Ouantentheorie der Strahlung," Z. Physik 62 (1930), 673-6. Walter Heitler, The Quantum Theory of Radiation, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1945). O. Klein and Y. Nishina, "Ueber die Streuung von Strahlung durch freie Elektronen nach der neuen relativistischen Ouantenelektrodynamik von Dirac ," Z .
G. Darwin, " Wave Equations of the Electron ," Proc. Roy. Soc. (London) AI18 (1928), 654-80 . See Dirac, "Recollections" (Note 21), p. 144. For a more extended treatment of the history of the concept of the "hole," and antiparticles in general, see Hanson, Concept of the Positron (Note 16) , Moyer. " Evaluations" (Note 20), and Dirac, "Recollections" (Note 21). For more historical detail, see P. A. M. Dirac's "The Prediction of Antimatter ," the first H. R. Crane Lecture, April 17, 1978, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.