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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