PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Milestones 1958-1969
Physical Review Letters Milestones 1958-1969
Data re-ordered and summarized from much lengthier, reviewed and abstracted summaries from:
Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective
Gene D. Sprouse
Editor-in-Chief, APS
1969 High-Energy Inelastic e-p Scattering at 6° and 10°
E. D. Bloom, D. H. Coward, H. DeStaebler, J. Drees, G. Miller, L. W. Mo, R. E. Taylor, M. Breidenbach, J. I. Friedman, G. C. Hartmann, and H. W. Kendall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 930 (1969) NOBEL 1990
1969 .Observed Behavior of Highly Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering
M. Breidenbach, J. I. Friedman, H. W. Kendall, E. D. Bloom, D. H. Coward, H. DeStaebler, J. Drees, L. W. Mo, and R. E. Taylor
Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 935 (1969)
1968 Search for Neutrinos from the Sun
Raymond Davis, Don S. Harmer, and Kenneth C. Hoffman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 1205 (1968) NOBEL 2002
1967 Model of Leptons
Steven Weinberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 1264 (1967) NOBEL 1979
1966 Absence of Ferromagnetism or Antiferromagnetism in One- or Two-Dimensional Isotropic Heisenberg Models
N. D. Mermin and H. Wagner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 17, 1133 (1966)
1965 Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States
N. J. Zabusky and M. D. Kruskal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 240 (1965)
1964 Evidence for the 2π decay of the Κ20 Meson
J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin, V. L. Fitch, and R. Turlay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 138 (1964) NOBEL 1980
1964 Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons
F. Englert and R. Brout
Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 321 (1964)
1964 Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles
G. S. Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and T. W. Kibble
Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 585 (1964)
1963 Photon Correlations
Roy J. Glauber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 84 (1963) NOBEL 2005
1963 Gravitational Field of a Spinning Mass as an Example of Algebraically Special Metrics
Roy P. Kerr
Phys. Rev. Lett. 11, 237 (1963)
1962 Observation of High-Energy Neutrino Reactions and the Existence of Two Kinds of Neutrinos
G. Danby, J-M. Gaillard, K. Goulianos, L. M. Lederman, N. Mistry, M. Schwartz, and J. Steinberger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 36 (1962) NOBEL 1988
1962 Evidence for X Rays from Sources Outside the Solar System
Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, Frank R. Paolini, and Bruno B. Rossi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 439 (1962) NOBEL 2002
1962 Coherent Light Emission from GaAs Junctions
R. N. Hall, G. E. Fenner, J. D. Kingsley, T. J. Soltys, and R. O. Carlson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 366 (1962)
1961 Coherent Light Emission from GaAs Junctions
R. N. Hall, G. E. Fenner, J. D. Kingsley, T. J. Soltys, and R. O. Carlson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 366 (1962)
1961 Experimental Evidence for Quantized Flux in Superconducting Cylinders
Bascom S. Deaver and William M. Fairbank
Phys. Rev. Lett. 7, 43 (1961)
1961 Theoretical Considerations Concerning Quantized Magnetic Flux In Superconducting Cylinders
N. Byers and C. N. Yang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 7, 46 (1961)
1960 Apparent Weight of Photons
R. V. Pound and G. A. Rebka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 4, 337 (1960)
1960 Energy Gap in Superconductors Measured by Electron Tunneling
Ivar Giaever
Phys. Rev. Lett. 5, 147 (1960) NOBEL 1973
1960 Electron Tunneling Between Two Superconductors
Ivar Giaever
Phys. Rev. Lett. 5, 464 (1960)
1959 Lattice Vibrations in Silicon and Germanium
B. N. Brockhouse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 2, 256 (1959)
1959 Calculation of Partition Functions
J. Hubbard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 3, 77 (1959)
1958 Element No. 102
A. Ghiorso, T. Sikkeland, J. R. Walton, and G. T. Seaborg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 1, 18 (1958)
1958 Two-Fluid Model of Superconductivity
John Bardeen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 1, 399 (1958)
NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED to the following:
1967 Nobel 1979 Model of Leptons
Steven Weinberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 19, 1264 (1967) NOBEL 1979
1964 Nobel 1980 Evidence for the 2π decay of the Κ20 Meson
J. H. Christenson, J. W. Cronin, V. L. Fitch, and R. Turlay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 138 (1964) NOBEL 1980
1962 Nobel 1988 Observation of High-Energy Neutrino Reactions and the Existence of Two Kinds of Neutrinos
G. Danby, J-M. Gaillard, K. Goulianos, L. M. Lederman, N. Mistry, M. Schwartz, and J. Steinberger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 36 (1962) NOBEL 1988
1969 Nobel 1990 High-Energy Inelastic e-p Scattering at 6° and 10°
E. D. Bloom, D. H. Coward, H. DeStaebler, J. Drees, G. Miller, L. W. Mo, R. E. Taylor, M. Breidenbach, J. I. Friedman, G. C. Hartmann, and H. W. Kendall
Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 930 (1969) NOBEL 1990
1968 Nobel 2002 Search for Neutrinos from the Sun
Raymond Davis, Don S. Harmer, and Kenneth C. Hoffman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 20, 1205 (1968) NOBEL 2002
1962 Nobel 2002 Evidence for X Rays from Sources Outside the Solar System
Riccardo Giacconi, Herbert Gursky, Frank R. Paolini, and Bruno B. Rossi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 9, 439 (1962) NOBEL 2002
1963 Nobel 2005 Photon Correlations
Roy J. Glauber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 84 (1963) NOBEL 2005
