Announcement

Zusammenfassung

In reiceived on June 15th the following telegram from F. Reines and C. Cowan (Los Alamos): “We are happy to inform you that we have definitely detected neutrinos from fission fragments by observing inverse beta decay of protons. Observed cross-section agrees well with expected 6 • 10–⁴⁴ cm²”.

“It is always hard to look for a leading principle in the work of a great man, in particular if his work covers all fundamental problems of physics. Pauli’s work has one common denominator: his striving for symmetry and invariance. Relativity theory fascinated him all his life because of the fundamental rôle of invariants in its formalism. In his work on quantum electrodynamics and especially in his later papers on field theory, the fundamental symmetries were alsways made the central point of his arguments.”

Kronig und Weisskopf (1964), S. VIII