Physical Review Letters Celebrates 50 Years
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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 prl50th@ridge.aps.org is welcome.
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May 12, 2008 Edited by Martin Blume
Letters from the Past — A PRL Retrospective: This week's Milestone Letters were originally published in 1974. Milestone Letters: Discovery of the J/ψ Milestone Letters >
April 29, 2008 We recently stated here that peer review is a source of great strength for APS journals, but did not discuss why. What are the elements of a helpful report? Who benefits from such a report, and how?
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February 22, 2008 Starting with the 1975 discovery of the tau lepton, I look back on the last three decades of change in the substance and style of experimental and theoretical research in elementary particle physics. I recount the major accomplishments of those decades and predict a bright future for particle physics in the next two decades. Turning to three problems, I lament the change in theoretical style and taste, I discuss the growth in the complexity, size, and cost of particle physics experiments, and I conclude with a pessimistic comment on the size of particle physics collaborations.
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Edited by Sonja Grondalski |
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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.
Complete Timeline >
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