1. Josef-Maria Jauch had two older siblings: Adelheid Jauch and Emil Josef Karl Jauch.
12 Facts About Josef-Maria Jauch
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Josef-Maria Jauch was interested in music, studying the violin from age twelve with his father, and then professionally after his father died when he was fifteen, performing chamber music from the age sixteen, and continuing throughout his student years in Zurich.
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In 1933 Josef-Maria Jauch began studies at the ETH Zurich, paying his fees with loans from friends in Lucerne because he had no money, and taking courses on thermodynamics from Wolfgang Pauli, on probability and graph theory from George Polya, and on Galois theory and topology from Heinz Hopf.
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Meanwhile, Josef-Maria Jauch continued working alongside Pauli's students under Gregor Wentzel, working on pair theory until 1942.
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In 1943, Josef-Maria Jauch taught classes in advanced quantum mechanics every other week at Cornell University.
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In March 1946, Josef-Maria Jauch decided to explore new directions by joining Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey as a research scientist for four months, where he studied luminescence in solids.
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Josef-Maria Jauch developed a lasting friendship and collaboration with Fritz Rohrlich, with whom he wrote his first book, Theory of Photons and Electrons.
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Josef-Maria Jauch spent the following year stationed in London as a scientific liaison officer for the US Office of Naval Research, where he wrote reports on the state of physics around Europe.
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Josef-Maria Jauch pointed out to Bell that Gleason's theorem could be used to rule out a certain class of hidden variables on the basis of only quantum logic, which led to Bell's "other theorem", discovered independently by Kochen and Specker and now known as the Kochen-Specker theorem.
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Josef-Maria Jauch became a founding member of the European Physical Society at its inception in 1968.
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Josef-Maria Jauch died suddenly of a stroke on August 30,1974, and was buried in Cimetiere de Saint-Georges, Geneva.
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Josef-Maria Jauch was the author of three books and over 80 scientific papers.