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Isaac Newton Online

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[Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton]

The Work of Murray Gell-Mann

I've posted a variety below of the important papers of Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929, his bio via Nobel.org is here) as they appear in Murray Gell-Mann, Selected Papers, and published by World Scientific in 2010.  Each has a link to the original paper.    [Source:  Google Books] Following this is a re-post of the full list of publications by Gell-Mann as presented on the website of the Santa Fe Institute.  All I've done here is copy the somewhat-difficult-to-read text into a table to differentiate the entries and make it a friendlier document (for me, at least). Again, this is solely the work of those at the Santa Fe Insitute.

The Top 100 Cited Papers in the "Reviews of Modern Physics"

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I found recently a very interesting and useful table of the top-100 cited papers published in the Reviews of Modern Physics (published to 1988, see pp 10-12). It was collected and generated by Dr. Eugene Garfield and for me displays some pretty valuable information. It is arranged alphabetically by author, and since it is in a pretty static format I generated from the converted pdf file an index showing the papers arranged by the number of citations together with the last name of the author and the placement in the RMP--unfortunately the quality of the original pdf was such that it restricted using the title of the paper because it would have resulted in re-entering all of the data. So to use this new table just refer to the original pdf and you'll be able to quickly find all of the rest of the bibliographic information. 

R.P. Feynman Publications, 1938-1999

Many thanks to Dr. Hagen Kleinert (University of Berlin) for creating this bibliography.  The original can be found on his website here. 

1938
[1] With M.S. Vallarta. Scattering of cosmic rays by the stars of a galaxy. Phys Rev 55: 340-343.

1939
[2] Forces in molecules, Phys. Rev. 56: 340-34

Timeline of the Discovery of the Elements

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Timeline of the Discovery of the Elements

I found this very useful timeline presented in a not very friendly way at the about.com site. I couldn't help but to coyp it and clean it up a little to make it a little more accessible.  Caveat: none of this is my own work--all of the credit for putting this list together goes to Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.   The original site for the list is About.com. 

"Here's a helpful table chronicling the discovery of the elements. The date is listed for when the element was first isolated. In many cases, the presence of a new element was suspected years or even thousands of years before it could be purified. Click on an element's name to see its entry in the Periodic Table and get facts for the element."

Timeline of the Big Bang

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Here's an interesting, short timeline that I found and and which I reprint below--it was part of the appendix to the book by J.-P. Luminet,  L'Invention du Big Bang (Editions du Seuil, Paris), which was printed in 1997.  "Ce texte est l'introduction de l'ouvrage A. Friedmann, G. Lemaître : Essais de Cosmologie , traduction et notes de J.-P. Luminet et A. Grib, Le Seuil, collections 'Sources du Savoir' ". 

The U.S. Civil War--Handy Alphabetical List of Battles

Since we're nearing the half-way point of the 150th anniversary of the war I thought to put together a handy list of battles--I think I've seen one elsewhere but really I cannot recall the locatiion, so I cobbled together a fast-and-simple alpha list to have on hand. 

Alphabetical Listing of Major Civil War Campaigns, by Battle

Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863

Some Important Dates in the History of French Mathematics

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This interesting, unusual, and scarce publication was printed for the New York World's Fair, 1939, as part of the French pavilion.  It is only seven pages long, but its a useful seven pages, and very seldom seen. 

History of Science Reference Tools

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Here are some of the history of science reference tools that have been compiled on this blog:

• Anatomy--35 Great Antiquarian Works on Anatomy:  1390-1899 (Huge Image Base)

• Annalen der Physik (1799--Present): Useful, Searchable, Full-Text Sites.

Milestone Papers in the Physical Review Letters, 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 

Reference Tool: a Short and Handy Timeline of Quantum Mechanics, 1900-1962

A Short Timeline of Quantum Mechanics, 1900-1962

1900 Johannes Rydberg refines the expression for observed hydrogen line wavelengths.

1900 Max Planck states his quantum hypothesis and blackbody radiation law1902 Philipp Lenard observes that maximum photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency.

1902 Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian motion.

1905 Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect.

Reference Tool: Handy List of Nobel Prizes Awarded in Physics

(For some reason I couldn't find a simple listing of Nobel Prize winners listed alphabetically--so here one is. This is linked to the Nobel site which of course has an exhaustive listing of winners and reasons for the award; this list is a simple thumbnail of the winners.)

Note: about halfway down is a descending list of recipients with the Nobel Foundation's reasons for the awards.  All text in the descrption for the award is from the Nobel Foundation site.  (This ends/begins in 1997--I'll get this up to date shortly.) 

For videos of the recipients' Nobel lectures, see here.

Abrikosov, Alexei A. 2003
Alferov, Zhores I. 2000
Alfven, Hannes 1970
Alvarez, Luis W. 1968
Anderson, Carl David 1936
Anderson, Philip W. 1977

Index of the Scientific Papers of Albert Einstein, 1901-1955

 

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1901 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 4(3):513-523
Conclusions from the capillarity occurrences       

1902 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 8(8):798-814
The thermodynamic theory of the potential differences between metals and complete dissociation solutions of their salts and a electrical method towards the probing of molecular power      

1902 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 9(10):417-433
Kinetic theory of the heat equilibrium and the second fundamental theorem of the thermodynamics      

1903 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 11(5):170-187
A theory on the basics of thermodynamics      

Reference Tool: Your Handy Guide to U.S. Patent Numbers

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This is a simple tally of  American patent numbers and the years in which they appeared.  I've found this list handy from time to time and thought to repost it here.  It is a lot easier to have this series posted here than have to wrangle he data out of the occasionally labyrinthine U.S.P.T.O.:

Reference Tool: Alphabetical Listing of U.S. Civil War Battles

SInce we're in the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the war I thought to put together a handy list of battles--I think 've seen one elsewhere but really I cannot recall the locatiion, so I cobbled together a fast-and-dirty alpha list to have on hand. 

Alphabetical Listing of Major Civil War Campaigns, by Battle

Allatoona Georgia October 5, 1864
Amelia Springs Virginia April 5, 1865
Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862
Appomattox Station Virginia April 8, 1865
Appomattox Court House Virginia April 9, 1865
Aquia Creek Virginia May 29-June 1, 1861
Arkansas Post / Fort Hindman Arkansas January 9-11, 1863
Atlanta Georgia July 22, 1864
Athens Alabama January 26, 1864
Averasborough / Smiths Ferry / Black River North Carolina March 16, 1865
Auburn / Catlett's Station / St. Stephen's Church Virginia October 13, 1863
Auburn / Coffee Hill Virginia October 14, 1863