March, Arthur#
b. Brixen, South Tirol (now Bressanone, Italy), Feb. 23, 1891, d. Berne, Switzerland, April 17, 1957, physicist. From 1926 University Professor in Innsbruck, 1934-36 Visiting Professor at Oxford, then returned to Innsbruck; member of the resistance during the Second World War. His main achievement was the introduction of the "smallest number" as a constant, which is, however, now considered too high on the basis of new insights.
Works#
Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik, 1931; Einfuehrung in die moderne Atomphysik, 1933; Natur und Erkenntnis in der Konstruktion des heutigen Physikers, 1948; Quantum Theory of Particles and Wave-Fields, 1951.Literature#
F. Cap, in: Acta Physica Austriaca XI, 3, 1957; Neue Deutsche Biographie.