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The Last Källén-Pauli Letters

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Let us jump ahead of ourselves and have a look at the last letters exchanged between Källén and Pauli, in the year Pauli passed away. During the two preceding years, their correspondence was mostly related to Heisenberg’s work which we shall discuss further down in this PART.

By the beginning of 1958, the volume of the correspondence between Källén and Pauli had diminished considerably. They had no urgent matters of common interest to discuss. Pauli was working on particle physics phenomenology and Källén had deeply immersed himself in the n-point function program. Pauli’s last letter ([3093] in the Pauli Collection) to Källén, dated 22 October 1958, has the following content (translated from German):

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Jarlskog, C. (2014). The Last Källén-Pauli Letters. In: Jarlskog, C. (eds) Portrait of Gunnar Källén. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00627-7_38

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