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  • 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. 

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  • The Top 100 Cited Papers in the “Reviews of Modern Physics”

    JF Ptak Science Books    Reference Tool Series

    Feynman superfluidity393I 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. 

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  • R.P. Feynman Publications, 1938-1999

    FEYNMAN PORTRAIT
    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

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  • 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

    JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

    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’ “. 

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  • 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

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  • Some Important Dates in the History of French Mathematics

    JF Ptak Science Books       Reference Tool series

    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. 

    Math french a202

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  • 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 

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  • 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

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  • Index of the Scientific Papers of Erwin Schroedinger, 1914-1955


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    1914 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 44 (14): 916-934
    Schrodinger E
    The dynamics of elastically coupled point systems

    1914 PHYSIKALISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 15: 79-86
    Schrodinger E
    Acidity which produces interference patterns with x-rays.

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