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This chapter describes more in detail how Källén happened to end up at “Pauli’s Court” so that the great man, as he put it himself, could “discover” him.
As mentioned in the previous chapter, the only professor of theoretical physics in Lund, Torsten Gustafson (1904–1987), had established a good contact with Wolfgang Pauli in Zürich. After all, both were often in Copenhagen, visiting their common friend Niels Bohr. Gustafson would send scientific articles to Pauli [1], to get his opinion, and would invite Pauli to visit Lund. When in Copenhagen, a small detour to Lund, situated nearby, would not cost Pauli much time or effort.
On a few occasions Gustafson, after having obtained Pauli’s consent, would provide financial support for a student to go to Zürich to attend his lectures. Several young scientists from Lund had already benefited from this arrangement before this great opportunity was offered to Källén.
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Jarlskog, C. (2014). The Young Källén at “Pauli’s Court”. In: Jarlskog, C. (eds) Portrait of Gunnar Källén. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00627-7_4
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