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"In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for
his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth
elements, one sentence leaps out:
Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations.
Who was Miss Frank? Van Vleck credits her with key work on the quantum
mechanics of magnetism, but she is almost absent from the history books.
Amelia Frank published a handful of scholarly papers which are well-cited for
the time. Yet histories of physics mostly mention her only as the wife of
Eugene Wigner, who was himself awarded the physics Nobel in 1963.
Why don’t we know more about Frank, and why aren’t her contributions
recognised? When we searched through the archives, we found a remarkable
scientific life unfolding at the dawn of quantum mechanics."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
