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62 Years of Particle Physics Foundation Papers 1896-1958.
This list is taken entirely from the Chronology of Milestone Events of Particle Physics, streamlined just a bit and made a little more accessible for a fast browse.
BECQUEREL 1896B
Evidence for spontaneous
radioactivity effect. PDF
BECQUEREL 1896C
Confirmation of the effect of
spontaneous radioactivity. PDF
BECQUEREL 1896F
Uranium radioactivity
established. PDF
Discovery of the electron,
the first elementary particle. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1899
Evidence for the a and b components of uranium radiation. PDF
Confirmation of the g radioactivity.
Discovery of a new formula
for the energy spectrum of the black body radiation, Planck's radiation law.
PDF
Quantum hypothesis and explanation
of the black body radiation spectrum. Beginnings of the quantum era in physics.
PDF
PLANCK 1901
Quantum hypothesis and final
version of Planck's formula for the black body radiation spectrum. PDF
LEBEDEV 1901
First experimental evidence for
pressure of the light on the solid bodies. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1903
Observation that a rays are the flow of doubly positive charged particles PDF
EINSTEIN 1905
Explanation of the photoelectric
effect with use of the quantum hypothesis of Planck. Light is a flow of
corpuscular objects with definite energies - Planck's quanta of energy. PDF
EINSTEIN 1905B
Invention of the theory of
special relativity. PDF
EINSTEIN 1905C
Invention of the theory of
special relativity, E = mc2. PDF
STARK 1909
First explicit identification of the
photon as a genuine elementary particle possessing both energy and momentum.
PDF
MILLIKAN 1911
First conclusive measurement of
the charge of the electron. PDF
Evidence for the atomic
nucleus.
HESS 1912
Conclusive evidence for the
cosmic rays.
WILSON 1912
Invention of the cloud
chamber to visualize tracks of ionizing particles. PDF
BOHR 1913
Invention of the quantum
theory of atomic spectra based on the Rutherford
model of atomic structure - Bohr's atom. PDF
BOHR 1913B
Bohr's quantum theory of
atomic spectra. Evidence that radioactivity is a nuclear property. PD
Confirmation of the existence
of atomic nuclei. First indication of the existence of the proton. PDF
MILLIKAN 1916
First conclusive measurement
of energy quantization in the photoelectric effect. PDF
Bohr's invention of
correspondence principle. PDF
Rutherford
Discovery of the proton.
Evidence for the proton as a constituent of the nucleus. PDF
RUTHERFORD 1920
Rutherford neutron hypothesis. PDF
CHADWICK 1921
Evidence for the strong
interactions. PDF
format
COMPTON 1923
Direct experimental
confirmation that the photon is an elementary particle, the Compton effect.
PDF
WILSON 1923
Experimental confirmation of
the ionization process predicted by Compton
BOSE 1924
Discovery of new statistical
counting rules for light quanta and a new derivation of Planck's radiation law.
Known as Bose-Einstein quantum statistics for particles with integer spins.
PDF
Invention of matrix formalism
for the Heisenberg quantum mechanics. Systems with one degree of freedom.
PDF
BORN 1926
Development of matrix
formalism for the Heisenberg quantum mechanics. Systems with arbitrary many
degrees of freedom. PDF
FERMI 1926B
Invention of statistics for
ensembles of particles obeying Pauli principle - Fermi-Dirac quantum statistics.
PDF
DIRAC 1927
First steps in quantum field
theory. Invention of the second quantization method.
Explanation of a decay as a consequence of quantum-mechanical tunneling through a
potential barrier. PDF
OPPENHEIMER 1930
First evidence of ultraviolet
divergences occurring in the theory of quantum electrodynamics - the
self-energy of the electron. PDF
DIRAC 1931
Prediction of the
anti-electron (e+), anti-proton ( anti-p), and an
indication of the possible existence of magnetic monopoles. PDF
LAWRENCE 1931B
Tests of the first cyclotron.
PDF
VAN DE GRAAFF 1931
Invention of the Van de Graaff
electrostatic accelerator. PDF
First evidence for the
neutron. PDF
UREY 1932
Evidence for the deuteron.
PDF
UREY 1932B
Discovery of the deuteron.
PDF
format
Invention of
electrostatic accelerators. in PDF
format
ANDERSON 1933
Discovery of the positron,
the first antiparticle, predicted by Dirac. PDF
YUKAWA 1935
Yukawa field theory of nuclear
forces. Prediction of heavy quanta, the pion particles, as mediators of strong
interactions. PDF
Breit-Wigner form of the
amplitude for resonance reactions. PDF
Extension of Fermi
interaction and Gamow-Teller selection rules. PDF
Hypothesis of charge
independence of nuclear forces. PDF
CASSEN 1936
Proposal of the isotopic spin
(for the nucleon). PDF
WIGNER 1937
Discovery of supermultiplet
structure in nuclear spectroscopy
NEDDERMEYER 1937
First evidence for the muon.
PDF
CERENKOV 1937
Confirmation of the
Frank-Tamm theory of the Vavilov- Cerenkov effect PDF
Muon existence confirmation.
PDF
Confirmation of the existence
of the muon. PDF
format
Establishment of the neutron
spin 1/2. PDF
ALVAREZ 1938
First evidence for the
capture of atomic electrons by the weak interaction; K-capture.PDF
LAWRENCE 1939
First cyclotron for medical
applications. PDF
KELLOGG 1939
High-precision measurements
of proton and deuteron magnetic moments. PDF
ROSSI 1939
First evidence of muon decay
and first estimation of its lifetime. PDF
First direct measurement of the
neutron magnetic moment. PDF
Theorem on the connection
between spin and statistics.
Kerst proposal for betatron
accelerator. PDF
RASETTI 1941
First measurement of the muon
lifetime, preliminary result. PDF
First betatron. in PDF
RASETTI 1941B
First measurement of the muon
lifetime. PDF
NERESON 1942
Confirmation of the muon
exponential decay rate. PDF
First Fermi nuclear reactor.
Beginning of atomic energy era. PDF
First theoretical calculation
of g-2 for the electron. PDF
FEYNMAN 1948C
Invention of the path
integral formalism for quantum mechanics. PDF
Covariant quantum
electrodynamics: Equivalence between the Tomonaga-Schwinger method and the
Feynman method and generalization PDF
Covariant quantum
electrodynamics: Equivalence between the Tomonaga-Schwinger method and the
Feynman method and generalization. PDF
Development of the covariant
quantum electrodynamic theory. Feynman method. PDF
HEISENBERG 1952
Prediction of rising total
hadronic cross sections. Full text in PDF
Evidence that strong
interactions do not modify the vector coupling constant of beta decay. Analogy
between electromagnetic and weak interactions. PDF
MANDELSTAM 1958 PDF
Dispersion relation in two
variables: the Mandelstam representation.
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