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We discuss a new interpretation of Heisenberg’s nuclear theory which leads to a slightly different Hamiltonian function. Accordingly we treat the nuclei statistically.
Translated from Über die Kerntheorie “Zeitschrift für Physik”, Bd. 82, 1933, pp. 137–145, by Verena Wehrli-Brink. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier from “Nuclear Forces”, edited by D. M. Brink, Pergamon Press, 1965. (Courtesy of D. M. Brink.)
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Heisenberg, W.: Z Physik. 77, 1 (1932); 78, 156 (1933)
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Heisenberg, W.: Z Physik. 80, 587 (1933)
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I would like to thank Professor Heisenberg very much for being able to see his paper before it was published. (See2)
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Dirac, P.A.M.: Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 26, 376 (1930)
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Majorana’s unpublished doctoral dissertation (discussed in July 1929), in spite of its title “Sulla meccanica dei Nuclei Radioattivi” (“On the mechanics of the radioactive nuclei”) does not really concern nuclear structure. It is an interesting study of the quantum potential barrier.
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Majorana, E. (2020). On Nuclear Theory. In: Cifarelli, L. (eds) Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23509-3_10
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