Supplements
A Celebration of Physics
Nature, 397, 6714 (supplement), 1—88 (7 January 1999)
In this supplement
The 100th anniversary of the American Physical Society, which will be celebrated this year, is a fitting occasion to look back over the past century of physics.
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Editorial
A celebration of physics
Philip Campbell
Reaching bottom, laying foundations
Frank Wilczek
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A Celebration of Physics
On a new kind of rays
W.C. Röntgen
Nature 53, 274—276 (23 January 1896) doi:10.1038/053274b0
A brief outline of the development of the theory of relativity
A. Einstein
Nature 106, 782—784 (17 February 1921) doi:10.1038/106782a0
Letters to Editor
Waves and quanta
L. De Broglie
Nature 112, 540 (13 October 1923) doi:10.1038/112540a0
Letters to Editor
The scattering of electrons by a single crystal of nickel
C. Davisson, L. H. Germer
Nature 119, 558—560 (16 April 1927) doi:10.1038/119558a0
Letters to Editor
A new type of secondary radiation
C. V. Raman, K. S. Krishnan
Nature 121, 501—502 (31 March 1928) doi:10.1038/121501c0
Letters to Editor
Possible existence of a neutron
J. Chadwick
Nature 129, 312 (27 February 1932) doi:10.1038/129312a0
Letters to Editor
Artificial production of fast protons
J. D. Cockcroft, E. T. S. Walton
Nature 129, 242 (13 February 1932) doi:10.1038/129242a0
Letters to Editor
Viscosity of Liquid Helium below the λ-point
P. Kapitza
Nature 141, 74 (8 January 1938) doi:10.1038/141074a0
Letters to Editor
The λ-phenomenon of liquid helium and the Bose-Einstein degeneracy
F. London
Nature 141, 643—644 (9 April 1938) doi:10.1038/141643a0
Letters to Editor
Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction
L. Meitner, O. R. Frisch
Nature 143, 239—240 (11 February 1939) doi:10.1038/143239a0
Evidence for the existence of new unstable elementary particles
G. D. Rochester, C. C. Butler
Nature 160, 855—857 (20 December 1947) doi:10.1038/160855a0
A new microscopic principle
D. Gabor
Nature 161, 777—778 (15 May 1948) doi:10.1038/161777a0
Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid
J. D. Watson, F. H. C. Crick
Nature 171, 737—738 (25 April 1953) doi:10.1038/171737a0
Man-made diamonds
F. P. Bundy, H. T. Hall, H. M. Strong, R. H. Wentorf
Nature 176, 51—55 (9 July 1955) doi:10.1038/176051a0
Letters to Nature
Stimulated optical radiation in ruby
T. H. Maiman
Nature 187, 493—494 (6 August 1960) doi:10.1038/187493a0
Article
Observation of a rapidly pulsating radio source
A. Hewish, S. J. Bell, J. D. H. Pilkington, P. F. Scott, R. A. Collins
Nature 217, 709—713 (24 February 1968) doi:10.1038/217709a0
Letters to Nature
Image formation by induced local interactions: examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance
P. C. Lauterbur
Nature 242, 190—191 (16 March 1973) doi:10.1038/242190a0
Letters to Nature
C60: buckminsterfullerene
H. W. Kroto, J. R. Heath, S. C. O'Brien, R. F. Curl, R. E. Smalley
Nature 318, 162—163 (14 November 1985) doi:10.1038/318162a0
Letters to Nature
A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12
A. Wolszczan, D. A. Frail
Nature 355, 145—147 (9 January 1992) doi:10.1038/355145a0
Letters to Nature
Superconductivity above 130 K in the Hg–Ba–Ca–Cu–O system
A. Schilling, M. Cantoni, J. D. Guo, H. R. Ott
Nature 363, 56—58 (6 May 1993) doi:10.1038/363056a0
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Experimental quantum teleportation
D. Bouwmeester, J.-W. Pan, K. Mattle, M. Eibl, H. Weinfurter, A. Zeilinger
Nature 390, 575—579 (11 December 1997) doi:10.1038/37539
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