[–] sombremesa 11y ago ↗ So the students who postulated spin were never rewarded. Then there's this:"Ironically, spin helped clinch confirmation of Pauli's exclusion principle of 1925, for which Pauli won the Nobel Prize in 1945." [–] robinrob 11y ago ↗ This is why people don't go into science.
[–] granfalloon 11y ago ↗ A nice recounting of the "discovery" by Goudsmit: http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/history/spin/goudsmit.html(I use the quotes because he discusses the role of luck in scientific discovery, and the question of who should get credit -- the first person to "guess" a truth that is ultimately proven, or the first person to understand it?)
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 18.8 ms ] thread"Ironically, spin helped clinch confirmation of Pauli's exclusion principle of 1925, for which Pauli won the Nobel Prize in 1945."
(I use the quotes because he discusses the role of luck in scientific discovery, and the question of who should get credit -- the first person to "guess" a truth that is ultimately proven, or the first person to understand it?)