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Erich Huckel

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Erwin with his psi can do
Calculations quite a few.
But one thing has not been seen:
Just what does psi really mean?
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As translated by Felix Bloch, and quoted in Traditions et tendances nouvelles des études romanes au Danemark (1988) by Ebbe Spang-Hanssen and Michael Herslund, p. 207; also in The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine : The Story of MRI? (1996) by James Mattson and Merrill Simon, p. 278

 
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