On the verge of Umdeutung in Minnesota: Van Vleck and the correspondence principle. Part one

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Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-624

  Duncan, Anthony ^a   Janssen, Michel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

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