No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli

Book info: No Time to be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli (Hardcover, 584 pages) – Oxford University Press, 2002. Language: English.

This book retraces the life of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, analyzes his scientific work, and describes the evolution of his thinking. Pauli spent 30 years as a professor at the Federal Institute of Technology ETH in Zurich, which occupy a central place in this biography. It would be incomplete, however, without a rendering of Pauli's sarcastic wit and, most importantly, of the world of his dreams. It is through the latter that quite a different aspect of Pauli's life comes in, namely his association with the psychology of C.G. Jung and his school.