A history of

Saad E. Hebboul

The American Physical Society, Ridge, NY

J. Sandweiss

G. Basbas

R. B. Schuhmann

R. Garisto

B. M. Johnson

S. Mitra

J. Malenfant

C. Wesselborg

M. Antonoyiannakis

S. Daffer

D. Hall

L. Miao

V. L. Miller

Y. Millev

J. Ripka

J. Throwe

D. Ucko

S. G. Brown

T. Duke

F. Narducci

D. van Heijnsbergen

K. J. Thomas

Support Staff

http://prl.aps.org/50years/timeline

OUTLINE

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2008

The Physical Review

APS Takeover

Letters To The Editor

Physical Review Letters

Present

PHYSICS JOURNALS Before 1893

EUROPE

UNITED STATES

Philosophical Transactions of the

Royal Society

Annalen der Physik

Philosophical Magazine

Comptes Rendus

Nuovo Cimento

Nature

American Journal of Science

( Geology, Mineralogy, Fossils, …, 1818 )

( UK, 1665 )

( Germany, 1790 )

( UK, 1798 )

( France, 1835 )

( Italy, 1855 )

( UK, 1869 )

AMERICAN

… buried

between layers

of papers on

FOSSILS & ROCKS …

PHYSICS

PAPERS …

Hartman ( 1994 ), p. 23

Franklin Hall

Cornell University

Edward L. Nichols

Ernest Merritt Frederick Bedell

THE PHYSICAL REVIEW ( July 1893 )

FIRST PHYSICAL REVIEW ARTICLE ( 1893 ):

FIRST MINOR CONTRIBUTION ( 1893 ):

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

THE PHYSICAL REVIEW

January 1913

TAKES OVER

Formed in 1899

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John T. Tate

July 1929

University of Minnesota

FIRST LETTER TO THE EDITOR ( 1929 )

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

July 1958

Sam Goudsmit George Trigg

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Long Island, New York

GOALS & CRITERIAT

IME

FIELDS OF SCIENCE

CROSS-FIELD FERTILIZATIONT

IME

FIELDS OF SCIENCE

EXAMPLE OF THREE EARLY IMPORTANT LETTERS

Bardeen, PRL 1, 399 (1958):

Matthias, Suhl, Corenzwit, PRL 1, 449 (1958):

Franken, Hill, Peters, Weinreich, PRL 7, 118 (1961):

From: Franken, Hill, Peters, Weinreich, PRL 7, 118 (1961)

EDITORIAL OFFICE ERASES THE

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

N. Bloembergen, Physics Today, October 1993, p. 28

Missing image of second harmonic

GOES ON TO PUBLISH …

Concepts & Ideas Discoveries

+

Nobel Prizes

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TRANSFORMATIONS

Abstracts & Length Limitation

( 1966, 1967 )

Editorial Board & Appeals

( 1974, 1979 )

Two Referees

( 1972 )

Goals & Acceptance Criteria

( 1982 )

RECENT

TRANSFORMATIONS

Front Cover Figures

( 2001 )

Electronic Office Project

( 2004 )

More No-Review Returns

( 2005 )

Editors’ Suggestions

( 2007 )

SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

1893

1913

1929

1958

2008

The Physical Review

APS Takeover

Letters To The Editor

Physical Review Letters

Present

Cross-Field Fertilization

Growth

Many Transformations

Growth & Delays

Growth

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

6:30 PM -- 8:30 PM

Balcony L - M

Marriott Hotel

EDITORS OF THE PHYSICAL REVIEW

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Gene Sprouse

Marty Blume ( Emeritus )

G. W. F. Drake

M. Malloy

D. J. Bukman

L. A. Collins

F. Dalfovo

J. Gea-Banacloche

M. Hillery

K. B. MacAdam

F. Narducci

M. Saffman

M. Foster

J. M. Gargano

J. Masterson

V. L. Miller

T. Pattard

J. Popadiuk

T. Arena

L. Zhang

P. D. Adams

A. M. Begley

A. Goland

K. G. Lynn

W. H. Weber

M. Weinert

M. D. Eager

J. Kim-Zajong

B. Rubin

S. H. Farrant

A. Y. Loudon

J. W. Taylor

K. Taylor

M. Rupolo

B. F. Gibson

S. C. Capstick

R. F. Casten

B. W. Filippone

W. R. Gibbs

J. I. Kapusta

W. G. Love

D. J. Millener

C. Wesselborg

J. T. Lenaghan

E. J. Weinberg

D. L. Nordstrom

U. M. Heller

R. D. Pisarski

R. Ray

R. Narayanan

M. Poko

G. S. Grest

M. Barthelemy

R. Dickman

B. Duenweg

B. Eckhardt

B. M. Johnson

J. F. Marko

J. D. Maynard

A. Politi

J. Selinger

A. Klironomos

S. K. Kancharla

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Dan Kulp

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AUTHORS

REFEREES

READERS

MAIN MATERIAL SOURCES

BOOKS

ARTICLES

WEBSITES

P. Hartman, The Physical Review: A history of

the first hundred years, ( 1994 )

The Physical Review: The first hundred years,

edited by H. Stroke ( 1995 )

The Physical Review

Physical Review Letters

N. Bloembergen, Physical Review Records the

Birth of the Laser Era, Physics Today (1993)R. K. Adair & E. M. Henley, Physical Review

Centenary: From basic research to high

Technology, Physics Today ( 1993 )

http://prl.aps.org/50years/timeline

http://prola.aps.org

http://prl.aps.org/50years/milestones

http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/phys/

additional/History-of-Physics.cfm

http://nobelprize.org

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