Physical Review Letters Celebrates 50 Years

Physical Review Letters, started by Editor Sam Goudsmit as an experiment, reaches its 50th anniversary in July 2008. We are marking this occasion in several ways (see the editorial). This page will be updated frequently with historical highlights and personal reminiscences as well as information on celebratory events taking place throughout the year. Feedback to feedback@ridge.aps.org is welcome.

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Milestone Letters

January 12, 2009

Edited by Martin Blume

Letters from the Past — A PRL Retrospective: This week's Milestone Letters were originally published in 2000.

Milestone Letters: Optical frequency combs

Milestone Letters: Left-handed materials and perfect lenses

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Timeline

Edited by Sonja Grondalski

The timeline features events related to the Physical Review and PRL, as well as seminal developments in physics after 1893. We also list a few important papers published by the journals. Papers published in PRL will be added to the timeline periodically.

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PRL Celebrates 50 Years
Join us as we commemorate 50 years of moving physics forward.
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Event Calendar

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Most cited Letters from 2008

1	Superconductivity at 38 K in the Iron Arsenide (Ba_1-xK_x)Fe₂As₂
2	Unconventional Superconductivity with a Sign Reversal in the Order Parameter of LaFeAsO_1-xF_x
3	Unconventional Pairing Originating from the Disconnected Fermi Surfaces of Superconducting LaFeAsO_1-xF_x
4	Superconductivity at 41 K and Its Competition with Spin-Density-Wave Instability in Layered CeO_1-xF_xFeAs
5	Density Functional Study of LaFeAsO_1-xF_x: A Low Carrier Density Superconductor Near Itinerant Magnetism
6	Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator
7	Giant Intrinsic Carrier Mobilities in Graphene and Its Bilayer
8	Superconductivity at 22 K in Co-Doped BaFe₂As₂ Crystals
9	First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory
10	Room-Temperature All-Semiconducting Sub-10-nm Graphene Nanoribbon Field-Effect Transistors

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