What are the Rules for Math-Sci-Tech Trivia, Part V?

[Evo]

Another great quiz, Gokul! Thanks!

Yes, it really was. Next time, don't post it at night when I'm asleep, and all the answers are almost gone by the time I wake up, I actually knew one of the answers.

 

[Astronuc]

With regard to the trivia about Rabi, Pauli and Fermi, where does one find this stuff? Is in their books, or memoirs, or those of others?

Someone I met a few years ago, new Rabi and some of his colleagues. More recently, I met Leo Szilard's nephew who is involved in reactor and computational physics.

 

[Gokul43201]

With regard to the trivia about Rabi, Pauli and Fermi, where does one find this stuff. Is in their books, or memoirs, or those of others.

It's usually one of those two or stuff that comes down the good ol' grapevine!

 

[Evo]

With regard to the trivia about Rabi, Pauli and Fermi, where does one find this stuff.

I just found this site. Sounds like Zz. http://www.msu.edu/~lewiska8/finalwebisp213h/pauli_quotes.htm

 

[George Jones]

With regard to the trivia about Rabi, Pauli and Fermi, where does one find this stuff? Is in their books, or memoirs, or those of others?

Biographies and autoboigraphies are good sources for stuff like this. I didn't learn the full (amazing!) of Schrodinger's discovery and solution of the equation that bears his name until I read a boigraphy of him.

Good popularizations also are often a good source. Many scientists are very dismissive of popularizations, but, if they're good, I like reading them for a number of reasons, one being for this type of stuff. For example, Kip Thorne, in his book Black Holes & Time Warps tells lots of good stories. As a student, Thorne took Russian, which, as a researcher, he put to good use in the Soviet Union. Fascinating.

Another great quiz, Gokul! Thanks!

Hear! Hear!

 

[Astronuc]

From link provided by Evo.

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."[2] W. Pauli.

Comment made upon reviewing a paper of another physicist. What I meant was that the paper had no correlation with scientific reality. To attempt to correct the paper would be futile, . . . .

It's not clear if Pauli said the part about "What I meant was . . . ", but it would seem Pauli discovered Trolls and Bozos?