From schrecke {*at*} zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca Wed Sep 4 12:53:12 1996 Received: from zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca for schrecke /at\zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca by www.ccl.net (8.7.5/950822.1) id MAA23218; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Received: by zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA11838; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:17:22 -0600 Message-Id: <9609041617.AA11838 "-at-" zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Dirac's dictum To: jsl /at\virgil.ruc.dk (Jens Spanget-Larsen) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 10:17:19 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chemistry ^at^ www.ccl.net In-Reply-To: <326D845C86 -x- at -x- virgil.ruc.dk> from "Jens Spanget-Larsen" at Sep 4, 96 05:38:31 pm Reply-To: schrecke "-at-" zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca (Georg Schreckenbach) Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Hi Jens, I haven't looked up the original paper myself, but I found the quote cited as P.A.M. Dirac, Proc.R.Soc.London Ser.A 123, 714 (1929). The qote is now known as "Dirac's dictum". Appareantly, it is from a speech that Dirac gave in Cambridge in 1929. The paragraph before the "dictum" is equally interesting, because Dirac thought that the newly developed theory of relativistic quantum mechanics would be of no importance for chemical applications. Yours, Georg -- ============================================================================== Georg Schreckenbach Tel: (Canada)-403-220 8204 Department of Chemistry FAX: (Canada)-403-289 9488 University of Calgary Email: schrecke%!at!%zinc.chem.ucalgary.ca 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 ==============================================================================