Charles Paul Enz (born 19 January 1925) [1] is a Swiss theoretical physicist, known for his long association with Wolfgang Pauli.
Enz studied at ETH Zurich, where he earned his Diplom in 1952 under Wolfgang Pauli. Subsequently he was scientific assistant to Georg Busch at ETH in the field of solid state physics, and earned his doctorate there under Pauli in 1956. During the summer semester of 1956 and the winter semester of 1958/59, he was Pauli's assistant and presented his lectures. From 1959 to 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beginning in 1961, he was full professor at the University of Neuchâtel, and from 1965 at the University of Geneva, where from 1977 he was chairman of the Physics department. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University during 1963–64, and at IBM Research – Zurich in 1970–71.
Enz was concerned among other things with solid state physics and with the history of physics. He was the editor of the 6-volume Pauli Lectures on Physics, and a co-editor of Pauli's collected works. He also wrote an essay on Pauli's scientific work, and a scientific biography of Pauli.
Enz was president of the Swiss Physical Society from 1975 to 1978. In 1986 he became a fellow of the American Physical Society.
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." In 1954–1955, he served for one year as the first director-general of CERN. Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of ferromagnetism and electron behavior in crystal lattices. He is also considered one of the developers of nuclear magnetic resonance.
The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli 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". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.
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