Physical Chemistry

Wolfgang Pauli

• Publisher: Dabney Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781406744903
• eBook ISBN: 9781447487999
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

Wolfgang Pauli was born on April 25th, 1900 in Vienna. He received his early education in Vienna before studying at the University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld. He obtained his doctor's degree in 1921 and spent a year at the University of Göttingen as assistant to Max Born and a further year with Niels Bohr at Copenhagen. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle," involving spin theory, underpinning the structure of matter and the whole of chemistry. The collection of addresses' within this volume have been collected for the first time were delivered in the main as summaries of Pauli's own special investigations, concerning themselves with the application of physical chemistry to different fields in medicine as rendered possible more particularly through advances in the physics and chemistry of organic colloids.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Author’s Preface
• Translator’s Prefce
• Prefatory Note to American Edition
• Contents
• 1. On Physico-chemical Methods and Problems in Medicine
• 2. The General Physical Chemistry of the Cells and Tissues
• 3. The Colloidal State and the Reactions that Go on in Living Matter
• 4. Therapeutic Studies on Ions
• 5. On the Relation between Physico-chemical Properties and Medicinal Effects
• 6. Changes Wrought in Pathology through Advances in Physical Chemistry
• 7. On the Electrical Charge of Protein and its Significance