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.
Edited by Martin Blume
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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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