Abstract
The quantum-mechanical calculations of Huntington and Seitz, of Huntington, and of Brooks led to a value of about 1 ev for the formation energy of a vacancy in copper. After a brief outline of these calculations, it is shown that in the light of recent experimental and theoretical work, the contributions of the electrostatic self-energy and Fermi energy of the valence electron must be corrected. These corrections lead to a final value of about 2 ev.
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