Editorial: Friedrich Hund — 100 years

✍ Scribed by B. Mühlschlegel

• Book ID: 101486234
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 29 KB
• Volume: 508
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-3804
• DOI: 10.1002/andp.2065080102

✦ Synopsis

The 'last page' in each issue of Annalen der Physik contains a reprint of the journal's table of contents of 100 years ago. The present issue shall in addition commemorate another event: The 100th birthday (4 February) of Friedrich Hund, Professor Emeritus in Gottingen. His name is familiar to every student of physics and chemistry by things like 'Hund's rules' and the 'Hund-Mulliken method'.

In 1938 Hund published a paper with the title 'Rechnungen aber das magnetische Verhalten von kleinen Metallstiicken bei tiefen Temperaturen' in this journal (Ann.

Physik 32 (1938) 102). There he studies size effects of magnetic properties in metals, and the paper is a very interesting precursor of today's mesoscopic physics. The first article in this issue is a reprint of Hund's work in an English translation kindly done by Professor J. Hajdu.

B. Miihlschlegel