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In Leningrad J.I. enlarged his efforts in several scientific directions. He started giving the course on wave mechanics not only at the Polytechnic and Physical-Technical Institutes, but at Leningrad University as well. In this way he tried to involve as many people as possible in the studies associated both with the development of the new quantum theory and with its applications to a broad range of macroscopic problems.
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J.I. Frenkel. International Physics Congress in the memory of A. Volta in Como. «Nauchnoe slovo», # 1, p. 64, 1928 (in Russian).
Op. cit., p. 66.
This result follows immediately from the formula for the maximum momentum of an electron: p 0 = (2mE 0)½, from which λmin ~ n -1/3
L.D. Landau and L.V. Rozenkevich were postgraduate students of Frenkel.
G.E. Gorelik, V.Ya. Frenkel. «Matvei Petrovich Bronstein and Soviet Theoretical Physics in the Thirties». Birkhäuser, 1994; (Moscow: Nauka, 1990 (in Russian)).
Quoted from the paper: V.Ya. Frenkel. Lev Viktorovich Rozenkevich. In: «A.F. Ioffe Memorial Readings», St.Petersburg: «Nauka», 1992 (in Russian).
Op. cit. The first of the papers mentioned by Rozenkevich was soon published by him. J.I. had refused to co-author this paper, following in this case his own rule to encourage the most talented of his pupils.
Later he carried out first-rate research in the electron theory of solids.
M.F. Deygen in: J.I. Frenkel. Memoirs, Letters, Documents. Leningrad: Nauka, 1986, pp. 200–201 (in Russian).
Of the Neva River in St. Petersburg.
K.S. Shifrin in op. cit., p. 228 (in Russian).
The paper was published in «Zeitschrift für Physik», Bd. 49, S. 31, 1928, and was included in the second volume of «Selected Papers» of J.I. Frenkel.
E.I. Rashba made a good point on this in his article dedicated to the 90th birthday of J.I. Frenkel: «The most prominent feature of J.I. Frenkel’s talent seems to be an extraordinary mind when it comes to questions of physics, which sometimes is involuntarily perceived by us now as a clairvoyance.» (UFN, 1984, v. 144, # 2, p. 347 (in Russian)).
The Pauli principle does not forbid «divorces» when an electron goes to another free or partly occupied «room», but absolutely rules out a «ménage à trois». (Comment by J.I. Frenkel).
W. Heisenberg. Zeitschrift fĂĽr Physik, Bd. 49, S. 619, 1928.
J.I. Frenkel and Ya.G. Dorfman. Nature, v. 126, p. 274, 1930.
J.I. Frenkel. Introduction to the Theory of Metals. Moscow: Fizmatgiz, 1958, p. 114 (in Russian).
L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshits. Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, Bd. 8, S. 157, 1935.
J.I. Frenkel. Zeitschrift fĂĽr Physik, Bd. 50, S. 234, 1928.
J.I. Frenkel. Collection of Selected Papers, v. 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1958, p. 121 (in Russian).
See, for instance, Ya.B. Zel’dovich and I.D. Novikov, UFN, v. 86, # 3, p. 448 (in Russian). In an article by the same authors published in «Pravda» on 9 March 1975, one reads: «Soviet scientists J. Frenkel and L. Landau made a large contribution to the theory of white dwarfs.» See also: S.A. Kaplan. Fizika zvyozd. Moscow: GIFML, 1961, p. 144 (in Russian).
J.I. Frenkel. Zeitschrift fĂĽr Physik, Bd. 47, S. 786, 1928.
A.L. Proca. Journal de Physique et Radium, v. 7, p. 347, 1936.
S.I. Vavilov. The VI Congress of Russian Physicists. «Nauchnoe Slovo», # 8, p. 95, 1928 (in Russian).
Quoted by: M.S. Sominsky. Abram Fyodorovich Ioffe. Moscow-Leningrad, Nauka, 1964, p. 401.
J.I.’s lectures in provincial towns in front of large, mostly student, audiences were of exactly this kind.
The State Publishing House.
The Central Department of Science.
Pauli, when speaking to someone, always rocked on the tips of his toes.
In 1928, i.e., two years before the events described, Frenkel completed a detailed review of Sommerfeld’s paper «Electron theory of metals based on the Fermi statistics». It was published in «Phys. Berichte» (Bd. 9, S. 1051–55, 1928). Sommerfeld knew that this publication went far beyond the scope of a usual review, so his remarks at the Odessa Congress were based on the previous experience as well. The translation of Frenkel’s review, because of its importance, was included in the collection of papers: A. Sommerfeld. «The Ways of Knowledge in Physics». Moscow: Nauka, 1973, pp. 103-108 (in Russian).
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Frenkel, V.Y. (1996). The Years 1926-1930. In: Yakov Ilich Frenkel. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8490-7_4
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