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Debye, like Born, should write a book, for himself and others, a fabulous lucid
mind with simple
conceptions.[6]
I’ve been reading Born’s book these past 2 days
in
bed:[7]
The Divine Comedy Einstein, where it also says every time at the end of
the song: e amor e le altre stellae [“love, which moves the sun and the other
stars”].[8]
In the next edition he should be a little more detailed, spec[ifically], you
really ought to comment a bit more on the development of the ideas on [pp.] 34ff.,
54f., 92f., 118ff., and on the end yourself, in the way you made many things clear
to me: But [it is] surely the most comprehensible book—despite
Freundlich[9]
—
much, much better, more contained, more logical than his “Structure of Matter,”
which was too hastily
drafted.[10]
Whereas Sommerfeld is somewhat difficult to
read,[11]
because he retains the authors’ nomenclature—thus leaving one to labor
(on one’s own even ), and the requisite compilation for self-ordering [via proofs]
becomes tiresome.
By the way: I don’t understand: how for the nucleus of H, 1/2000 of the electron
should be = 1/2,000,000 of H. The cohesion would be the energy-mass.
.
Where is this leading to?
We want to try to have industry contribute a fund so that we can invite Ruther-
ford, Aston, etc., to Zurich to give lectures,[12] because this train of thought is more
difficult for me to access and yet quite suggestive (as earlier Kelvin and Faraday
helped me very much).[13] Langevin is also coming.[14] You too? You old Swiss.
Besides that, I’m in the middle of the boundary surface conditions; I’m hoping
that my first love, the membranes, their structure acquire new life (despite stress
and tiredness).[15] The papers by Kossel—who is going to come to Zurich as well—
are also valuable to me as a hint, but not yet thought through enough for my
taste.[16]
You see, I am full of lively physics hopes and delivered a talk on spectra and
spectroscopy.
With best regards,
Zangger
nucleus
electron ( = 1 cm - distance 1st nucleus)
H 1.6 10
8–
– elect. 10
10–
– nucleus 10
14–
=
1 2000 10
13–
Rutherford curve
10–13
particles