History of Physics

authors and titles for '02

physics/0201028 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Chance and Necessity in Fermi's Discovery of the Properties of the Slow Neutrons
Authors: Alberto De Gregorio
Comments: 20 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Giornale di Fisica, 42,4 (2001) 195-208

hep-th/0201062 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: M-theory on manifolds of $G_{2}$ holonomy: the first twenty years
Authors: M. J. Duff
Comments: Talk at the Supergravity@25 conference, Stony Brook, December 2001. 15 pages, Latex. Further discussion of Witten's 1981 paper; speculations on Spin (9); extra references
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; Mathematical Physics; History of Physics

physics/0203001 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Sur la solution de Sundman du probleme des trois corps
Author: Malte Henkel
Comments: Latex, 26 pages, with 3 figures, text in French
Subj-class: History of Physics; History and Overview; Mathematical Physics
Journal-ref: Philosophia Scientiae 5 (2), 161-184 (2001)

physics/0204057 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Eddington & Uncertainty
Authors: Ian T. Durham
Comments: 27 pages, comments encouraged, related presentation at APS April 2002 Meeting
Subj-class: History of Physics

hep-th/0205086 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On the Theory of Collisions between Atoms and Electrically Charged Particles
Authors: Enrico Fermi
Comments: 11 pages, translated from Italian by Michele Gallinaro and Sebastian White. To Appear in the Proceedings of the Electromagnetic Probes of Fundamental Physics meeting, Erice, Sicily(October 2001), W.Marciano and S.White, eds
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

physics/0206076 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: An Early History of Heavy Water
Authors: Chris Waltham
Comments: 28 pages, 10 figures
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0207026 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Cyclic Universe: Some Historical Notes
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 7 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0207043 [abs, html] :

Title: The Role of Astronomy in the History of Science
Authors: E B Davies
Comments: 15 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0207094 [abs, src, html] :

Title: Fermi and Szilard
Authors: Nina Byers
Comments: HTML file with 3 photos and 3 photocopies of historical documents
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics and Society

physics/0207115 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The dangerous misconceptions of Sir Karl Raimund Popper
Authors: Karl Svozil
Comments: 7 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics

History of Physics

authors and titles for '01

physics/0101010 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: A Natural Concept of Image in the Physics of fr. Alonso de la Veracruz
Authors: Armando Barrañón (Dept. of Basical Sciences, UAM-A, Mexico City)
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0101012 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Yajnavalkya and the Origins of Puranic Cosmology
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 9 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; Popular Physics

physics/0101039 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Reductionism, Emergence, and Effective Field Theories
Authors: Elena Castellani
Comments: 18 pages, LateX2e, to appear in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0101063 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Birth and Early Development of Indian Astronomy
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 52 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics Education
Journal-ref: IN Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy, Helaine Selin (ed), Kluwer, 2000, pp. 303-340

physics/0101109 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Independence of events and quantum structure of the light in Einstein's special relativity
Authors: Y.G.A. Pierseaux
Comments: 12 pages, talk given (in French) at Conference on Wolfgang Pauli and Ferdinand Gonseth (Lausanne, November 2000)
Subj-class: History of Physics; Atomic Physics

cond-mat/0101293 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Planck's Legacy to Statistical Mechanics
Authors: Giorgio Parisi
Comments: 11 pages, historical talk given at the Accademia dei Lincei at the conference on Max Planck
Subj-class: Statistical Mechanics; History of Physics

quant-ph/0101129 [abs, ps] :

Title: 75 Years of the Wavefunction: Complex-Dynamical Extension of the Original Wave Realism and the Universal Schroedinger Equation
Authors: Andrei P. Kirilyuk
Comments: 44 pages; PostScript 3.0; Dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of the wavefunction and wave equation introduction by Erwin Schroedinger; Reviews a part of the author's book "Universal Concept of Complexity by the Dynamic Redundance Paradigm: Causal Randomness, Complete Wave Mechanics, and the Ultimate Unification of Knowledge" (Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1997; in English), see physics/9806002; language corrections in the revised version
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics; Chaotic Dynamics

physics/0102004 [abs, html] :

Title: Predecessors of preprint servers
Authors: James E. Till
Subj-class: Physics and Society; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Learn.Publ. 14 (2001) 7-13

physics/0103091 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Neutrinos
Authors: S.M. Bilenky
Comments: 46 pages, 11 figures, LATEX
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics Education; General Physics

hep-th/0103017 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Collaborating with David Gross; Descendants of the Chiral Anomaly
Authors: R. Jackiw
Comments: 7 pages, LaTeX. In celebration of David Gross's birthday. Email correspondence to jackiw@mitlns.mit.edu
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

physics/0104001 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Do the Laws of Nature and Physics Agree About What is Allowed and Forbidden?
Authors: Mario Rabinowitz
Comments: 30 pages, 0 figures
Subj-class: History of Physics; General Physics
Journal-ref: Infinite Energy 6 (2001) 54-63

gr-qc/0104032 [abs, pdf] :

Title: The origins of length contraction: I. The FitzGerald-Lorentz deformation hypothesis
Authors: Harvey R Brown
Comments: 29 pages; accepted April 2001 for publication in American Journal of Physics
Subj-class: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Am.J.Phys. 69 (2001) 1044-1054

physics/0105046 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Depth and Breadth of John Bell's Physics
Authors: R. Jackiw, A. Shimony
Comments: 46 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX; editorial corrections; email correspondence to R. Jackiw <jackiw@lns.mit.edu>
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0105094 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Beyond the Physics of Logic: Aspects of Transcendental Materialism or URAM in a Modern View
Authors: Rainer E. Zimmermann
Comments: Invited Contribution to URAM 11, August 15-18, 2001, University of Toronto
Subj-class: History of Physics; General Physics

cond-mat/0105242 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Boltzmann's Approach to Statistical Mechanics
Authors: Sheldon Goldstein
Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives, edited by Jean Bricmont, Detlef Durr, Maria C. Galavotti, Giancarlo Ghirardi, Francesco Petruccione, and Nino Zanghi, Lecture Notes in Physics 574, (Springer-Verlag)
Subj-class: Statistical Mechanics; History of Physics; Mathematical Physics

physics/0106037 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The invention of the quantum energy concept according to Planck
Authors: Nelson Studart
Comments: Text in Portuguese, 13 pages, 5 figures
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics Education
Journal-ref: Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Fisica, 22 (4), 523-535 (2000)

physics/0107009 [abs, pdf] :

Title: From the epicycles of the Greeks to Kepler's ellipse - The breakdown of the circle paradigm
Authors: Dino Boccaletti (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Comments: 14 pages, 9 figures, Presented at "Cosmology Through Time - Ancient and Modern Cosmology in the Mediterranean Area", Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), Italy, June 18-20, 2001
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0107010 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Feynman Path Goes Monte Carlo
Authors: Tilman Sauer (University of Bern)
Comments: 12 pp. Latex. To appear in: Fluctuating Particles and Fields. Eds. W. Janke et al., World Scientific, Singapore 2001
Subj-class: History of Physics; Computational Physics

physics/0109072 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Anthropic Fluctuations vs. Weak Anthropic Principle
Authors: Milan M. Cirkovic
Comments: 10 pages, no figures; Found. Sci. accepted for publication
Subj-class: History of Physics; Classical Physics

physics/0110028 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Marietta Blau's Work After World War II
Authors: Arnold Perlmutter
Comments: 44 pages, plain TeX
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0110029 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On Aryabhata's Planetary Constants
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 7 pages
Subj-class: General Physics; History of Physics

physics/0110031 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws
Authors: Mark A. Peterson
Comments: 15 pages, Latex. The discussion section has been rewritten to improve the exposition, and to include discussion of a 1609 letter to Antonio de'Medici. It has been submitted to American Journal of Physics
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0111167 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Majorana solution of the Thomas-Fermi equation
Authors: Salvatore Esposito
Comments: RevTex, 5 pages, 1 figure
Subj-class: Atomic Physics; General Physics; History of Physics

hep-th/0111237 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The world in eleven dimensions: a tribute to Oskar Klein
Authors: M. J. Duff
Comments: Oskar Klein Professorship Inaugural Lecture, University of Michigan, 16 March 2001. 38 pages, Latex, 15 color figures
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

physics/0112077 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Fermi and the Elucidation of Matter
Authors: Frank Wilczek
Comments: 16 pp, LaTeX; email correspondence to wilczek@mit.edu; opening talk at the celebration of Fermi's 100th birthday, Chicago, September 29, 2001. To be published in "Fermi Remembered", ed. J. Cronin (University of Chicago Press)
Subj-class: History of Physics

History of Physics

authors and titles for '00

physics/0001026 [abs, html] :

Title: Innovators and Interpreters: The Historic Role of Women in Science
Authors: Gina Hamilton
Comments: submitted to Maine Scholar. Presented at Women's Studies Conference at University of Maine at August, 13 November 1999, and as faculty colloquium at University of New England, 16 November 1999
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics and Society

physics/0002009 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The singular points of Einstein's Universe
Authors: M. Brillouin (translation by S. Antoci)
Comments: Plain TeX, 3 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Le Journal de Physique et Le Radium, Vol. 23, 43 (1923)

physics/0002042 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Heat and Kinetic Theory in 19th-Century Physics Textbooks: The Case of Spain
Authors: J. M. Vaquero, A. Santos
Comments: 15 pages (LaTex), 1 figure (jpg) To be published in Science & Education
Subj-class: Physics and Society; History of Physics; Physics Education
Journal-ref: Science & Education 10 (3), 307-319 (2001)

physics/0005051 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Fiber Bundle Gauge Theories and "Field's Dilemma"
Authors: Yair Guttmann, Holger Lyre
Comments: 34 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; General Physics

physics/0006065 [abs, src, html] :

Title: Rhythmos, Diathige, Trope
Authors: Alejandro Rivero
Comments: Spanish. Translated and expanded revision of english version (v1), now including greek sources
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0007009 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: A Review Essay: "Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age", by Patricia Rife
Authors: Gary R. Goldstein (Tufts University)
Comments: 13 pages Latex 2e. To be published in Peace and Change: a Journal of Peace Research. Submitted 13 Mar. 2000
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics and Society

physics/0008012 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The interpretations by experimenters of experiments on 'time dilation': 1940-1970 circa
Authors: Ilaria Bonizzoni, Giuseppe Giuliani
Comments: 43 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/0008229 [abs, ps] :

Title: The birth of special relativity. "One more essay on the subject"
Authors: J. Reignier
Comments: 31 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics

quant-ph/0008092 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: One Hundred Years of Quantum Physics
Authors: Daniel Kleppner, Roman Jackiw
Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX, slightly edited text of article published in Science, August 11, 2000 (Pathways of Discovery); email to kleppner@mit.edu or jackiw@mitlns.mit.edu
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Science 289 (2000) 893-898

physics/0009021 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Dirac and Majorana Constructs
Author: Valeri V. Dvoeglazov (Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas)
Comments: ReVTeX file, 8pp., in Spanish
Subj-class: General Physics; History of Physics; Physics Education
Journal-ref: Invest.Cient. 2 (2000) 59-63

astro-ph/0009259 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: How the sun shines
Authors: John N. Bahcall
Comments: Published by the Nobel e-Museum, June 29, 2000. See this http URL . Related material: this http URL
Subj-class: Astrophysics; History of Physics; Popular Physics
Journal-ref: SLAC Beam Line 31N1 (2001) 2-12

gr-qc/0009087 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein particle
Authors: Jeroen van Dongen
Comments: 25 pages, 2 figures, To appear in Stud. Hist. Phil. Mod. Phys
Subj-class: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; History of Physics

hep-ph/0009044 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Astrophysical neutrinos: 20th Century and Beyond
Authors: John N. Bahcall
Comments: IUPAP Centennial Lecture, Neutrino 2000; related information: this http URL
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 91 (2000) 9-17; Int.J.Mod.Phys. A16 (2001) 4955-4968

physics/0010003 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On Wolfgang Pauli's most important contributions to physics
Authors: Norbert Straumann (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich)
Comments: Opening lecture at the symposium: Wolfgang Pauli And Modern Physics, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli's birthday, ETH (Zurich), May 4-6 2000; in German
Subj-class: History of Physics

quant-ph/0010008 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: ".. I didn't reflect much on what I was doing.." How Planck discovered his radiation formula
Authors: Domenico Giulini, Norbert Straumann (Univ. of Zuerich, Switzerland)
Comments: Text in german; LeTeX 2epsilon, 7 pages, no figures; to be published in Physikalische Blaetter, Dec. 2000
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics

physics/0011042 [abs, pdf] :

Title: A Historical Perspective on the Topology and Physics of Hyperspace
Authors: Ian T. Durham (Mathematical Institute, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland)
Comments: 25 pages, 4 figures, research performed under the auspices of the Graduate Program in Applied Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Subj-class: History of Physics; History and Overview

hep-ph/0012061 [abs, ps] :

Title: Historical roots of gauge invariance
Authors: J. D. Jackson (LBNL), L. B. Okun (ITEP)
Comments: final-final, 34 pages, 1 figure, 106 references (one added with footnote since v.2); to appear in July 2001 Rev. Mod. Phys
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; History of Physics; Physics Education
Journal-ref: Rev.Mod.Phys. 73 (2001) 663-680

quant-ph/0012007 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Levels of Reality as Source of Quantum Indeterminacy
Authors: Basarab Nicolescu
Comments: 18 pages
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics
Journal-ref: "Determinismo e complessita", Fondazione Nova Spes and Armando Editore, Roma, 2000, pp.127-158, edited by F. Tito Arecchi

quant-ph/0012069 [abs, ps] :

Title: 100 Years of Quanta: Complex-Dynamical Origin of Planck's Constant and Causally Complete Extension of Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Andrei P. Kirilyuk
Comments: 43 pages; PostScript 3.0; Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of quanta appearance in Max Planck's report at the meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin 14 December 1900; Reviews a part of the author's book "Universal Concept of Complexity by the Dynamic Redundance Paradigm: Causal Randomness, Complete Wave Mechanics, and the Ultimate Unification of Knowledge" (Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1997; in English), see physics/9806002; minor textual changes and extended description of applications in v2
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics

History of Physics

authors and titles for '99

physics/9901037 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Certainty and Uncertainty in the Practice of Science: Electrons, Muons, and Taus
Authors: M. L. Perl
Comments: 36 pages, 14 figures, to be published in Science at the Turn of the Millenium; removal of incorrect equations
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9903010 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 14 pages; with minor corrections and a few additional references
Subj-class: History of Physics; Popular Physics
Journal-ref: In S. Kak, "The Wishing Tree", 2001 (Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, ISBN: 81-215-1032-5.)

physics/9903023 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Road to Stueckelberg's Covariant Perturbation Theory as Illustrated by Successive Treatments of Compton Scattering
Authors: J. Lacki, H. Ruegg, V. Telegdi
Comments: This paper is a "working-physicist" version of a paper to be published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9904058 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Supersymmetry : A new organizing principle for the microworld?
Author: U. A. Yajnik (IIT, Bombay)
Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX
Subj-class: History of Physics; Popular Physics

physics/9905030 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On the gravitational field of a mass point according to Einstein's theory
Authors: K. Schwarzschild (translation and foreword by S.Antoci and A.Loinger)
Comments: Plain TeX, 7 pages, English translation of the original paper by K. Schwarzschild
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Sitzungsberichte der Koeniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1916, 189-196

hep-ph/9905430 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Deformed Lorentz Symmetry and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Authors: Luis Gonzalez-Mestres
Comments: 4 pages, contributed paper HE.1.3.16 to the 26th ICRC, Utah August 17-25, 1999
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; History of Physics

physics/9906004 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On the analytic expression that must be given to the gravitational tensor in Einstein's theory
Authors: T. Levi-Civita (translation and foreword by S. Antoci and A. Loinger)
Comments: Plain TeX, 9 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, vol. 26, 381 (1917)

physics/9907032 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Study of the one-dimensional Schroedinger equation generated from the hypergeometric equation
Author: G.A. Natanzon
Comments: 9 pages in LaTex, translated by H.C. Rosu, thanks are due to R. Milson for sending me a xerocopy of the paper
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Vestnik Leningradskogo Universiteta No. 10 (1971) 22-28

chao-dyn/9907004 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Quasi periodic motions from Hipparchus to Kolmogorov
Author: Giovanni Gallavotti
Comments: 14 pages (with 11 figures), LaTeX-ReVTeX
Subj-class: Chaotic Dynamics; History of Physics

physics/9908003 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On a proposition relative to linear equations
Author: G. Darboux
Comments: 13 pages, LaTex, translated and forward by H.C. Rosu, idioms: original French, English, Romanian, Spanish
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 94 (1882) 1456-1459

physics/9908019 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Associated Sturm-Liouville systems
Author: M.M. Crum
Comments: 9 pages, LaTex, with a forward by H.C. Rosu
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Quart. J. Math. Oxford (2) 6 (1955) 121-127

physics/9909061 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On some functional transformations relative to linear PDEs of second order
Author: Jean Delsarte
Comments: 13 pages, LaTex, forward and translations by H.C. Rosu who is indebted to J. Beckers for kindly sending copy of the work, idioms: original French, English, Romanian, Spanish
Subj-class: History of Physics; Mathematical Physics
Journal-ref: Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 206 (1938) 1780-1782

physics/9910003 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The factorization of the hypergeometric equation
Author: Erwin Schroedinger
Comments: 2 pages, LaTexed by H.C. Rosu
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Proc. Roy. Irish Ac. 46 A (1941) 53-54

hep-ph/9910468 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The November $J/\Psi$ Revolution: Twenty-Five Years Later
Author: Avinash Khare
Comments: 9 pages, To be Published in Nov. 10 Issue of Current Science (India)
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Curr. Sc. (India) 77 (1999) 1210

gr-qc/9911008 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Scalar mesostatic field with regard for gravitational effects
Authors: I. Z. Fisher (translation and foreword by K. G. Zloshchastiev)
Comments: who was the pioneer in obtaining of exact static solutions of Einstein equations coupled with scalar field?
Subj-class: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 18 (1948) 636-640

hep-th/9911071 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: What good are quantum field theory infinities?
Authors: R. Jackiw
Comments: 13 pages, 1 figure using BoxedEPSF, amsmath macros; contribution to Mathematical Physics 2000, Imperial College Press, London, UK; email to jackiw@ralph2.mit.edu
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

quant-ph/9911107 [abs, ps] :

Title: 75 Years of Matter Wave: Louis de Broglie and Renaissance of the Causally Complete Knowledge
Authors: Andrei P. Kirilyuk
Comments: 35 pages; PostScript 3.0; Dedicated to the 75th Anniversary of matter wave appearance in the Ph.D. thesis defended by Louis de Broglie in Paris 25 November 1924; Reviews a part of the author's book "Universal Concept of Complexity by the Dynamic Redundance Paradigm: Causal Randomness, Complete Wave Mechanics, and the Ultimate Unification of Knowledge" (Kiev, Naukova Dumka, 1997; 550 p., in English), see physics/9806002
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics

physics/9912033 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: On the gravitational field of a sphere of incompressible fluid according to Einstein's theory
Authors: K. Schwarzschild (translation by S. Antoci)
Comments: Plain TeX, 9 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Sitzungsberichte der Koeniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1916, 424-434

astro-ph/9912039 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Surprises of phase transition astrophysics
Authors: Zakir F. Seidov
Comments: 4 pages, 1 fig, revtex. Essays on Gravitation-99, Gravity Research Foundation, USA
Subj-class: Astrophysics; History of Physics

History of Physics

authors and titles for '98

physics/9801025 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Vladimir Gribov (BH)
Authors: Yu. L. Dokshitzer
Comments: 7 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics and Society; Superconductivity

physics/9802039 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Historical Note on the Relativistic Theories of Electromagnetism
Author: Valeri V. Dvoeglazov (EFUAZ)
Comments: PDF file, 20pp
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Apeiron 5 (1998) 69-88

physics/9803005 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: History and outlook of statistical physics
Authors: D. Flamm
Comments: 12 pages, Latex
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9804020 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Speed of Light and Puranic Cosmology
Authors: Subhash Kak (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
Comments: 13 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics and Society; Popular Physics
Journal-ref: In Computing Science in Ancient India, T.R.N. Rao and S. Kak (eds.), USL Press, Lafayette, 1998, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 2000; pages 80-90

physics/9804021 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Early Theories on the Distance to the Sun
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 10 pages
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics Education; Popular Physics
Journal-ref: Indian Journal of History of Science, vol. 33, 93-100, 1998.

gr-qc/9804006 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Past and Future of Cosmic Topology
Authors: Jean-Pierre Luminet (D.A.R.C., Observatoire de Paris-Meudon)
Comments: LateX 9 pages, to appear in Acta Cosmologica, Proceedings of "Concepts de l'Espace en Physique", Les Houches, 29 sep - 3 oct 1997
Subj-class: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; History of Physics

hep-th/9805177 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: A Layman's Guide to M-theory
Authors: M. J. Duff
Comments: 32 pages, Latex. More minor improvements, typos corrected
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; Mathematical Physics; History of Physics

physics/9806011 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Dogmatism and Theoretical Pluralism in Modern Cosmology
Authors: Marcelo B. Ribeiro, Antonio A. P. Videira
Comments: 14 pages; LaTeX source
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Apeiron, vol 5, 227-234, (1998)

quant-ph/9806074 [abs, ps] :

Title: On an attempt to resolve the EPR-Bell paradox via Reichenbachian concept of common cause
Authors: Laszlo E. Szabo (Eotvos University, Budapest)
Comments: Revised (Changes in the Title and the Abstract. A Postscript is added, which makes serious modification in the conclusions.)17 pages, ps-file, 4 figures included, an illustrative computer program for PC: this http URL
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; Mathematical Physics; History of Physics; Popular Physics

physics/9807009 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Is Science going through a critical stage?
Authors: Luigi Foschini
Comments: 8 pages; no figures. Revised version: only minor corrections to English
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: AEI 83, (1996), 455-458

physics/9807012 [abs, ps] :

Title: Louis de Broglie und die Quantenmechanik
Authors: Henning Sievers (University of Hamburg)
Comments: 87 pages, in german language, new PostScript file to fix problems with previous versions
Subj-class: History of Physics; Physics Education; Physics and Society; Popular Physics

physics/9807044 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws
Authors: Nina Byers
Comments: 21 pages including English translations of quotations from correspondence between Felix Klein and David Hilbert and from notes of Felix Klein. The failure of local energy conservation in the theory of general relativity is central to this paper. Latex file. Metric tensor explicitly given in Footnote 7 of replacement paper; nbyers@physics.ucla.edu
Subj-class: History of Physics; Mathematical Physics

physics/9807046 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: When an experiment is crucial?
Authors: V. Pleitez
Comments: 20 pages, latex, no figures, in portugues
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9808033 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The "fingers" of the physics
Authors: Luigi Foschini
Comments: 14 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication on the Annales de la Fondation Luis de Broglie
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Annales Fond.Broglie 25 (2000) 67-79

physics/9808034 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Short range gravitational fields: Rise and fall of the fifth force
Authors: Luigi Foschini
Comments: 12 pages, no figures
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Annales Fond. L. de Broglie 23, (1998), 156-160

physics/9810023 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Catalog of the scientific manuscripts left by Ettore Majorana (with a Recollection of E.Majorana, sixty years after his disappearance)
Author: Erasmo Recami
Comments: LaTeX file, in Italian; 79 pages (replaced: with minor additions, improvements, modifications)
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: Quad.Storia Fis. 5 (1999) 19-68

physics/9810042 [abs, ps] :

Title: Searching for Shakespeare in the Stars
Authors: Eric Lewin Altschuler
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9811040 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Solar Numbers in Angkor Wat
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 9 pages; the revised article presents additional information regarding the cultural background in Cambodia. The Journal version of the paper also carries 4 figures
Subj-class: History of Physics; Popular Physics
Journal-ref: Indian Journal of History of Science, vol. 34, 1999, pp. 117-126

physics/9811050 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Relativity of Discovery: Hilbert's First Note on the Foundations of Physics
Authors: Tilman Sauer
Comments: 65pp.LaTeX; Arch.Hist.Ex.Sci.,in press
Subj-class: History of Physics

quant-ph/9811023 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: A History of Feynman's Sum over Histories in Quantum Mechanics
Authors: Akira Inomata (SUNY Albany), Georg Junker (Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Comments: 3 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on "Path-Integrals from peV to TeV", Florence, Italy, 1998
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; Mathematical Physics; History of Physics
Journal-ref: in R. Casalbuoni, R.Giachetti, V.Tognetti, R. Vaia, P.Verrucchi, eds. "Path Integrals from peV to TeV: 50 years after Feynman's paper", (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999) pp.19-21

physics/9812014 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: A Formula for the Rotation Periods of the Planets & Asteroids
Authors: Subhash Kak
Comments: 4 pages
Subj-class: Popular Physics; History of Physics; Physics Education

History of Physics

authors and titles for '97

physics/9703005 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Quantum Field Theory of Physics and Mathematics
Author: Howard J. Schnitzer
Comments: 7 pages, Latex
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9703017 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Wigner's Sisters
Author: Y. S. Kim
Comments: Latex, 5 pages, from the preface of the Proceedings of the 4th International Wigner Symposium, edited by N. M. Atakishiyev, T. H. Seligman, and K. B. Wolf (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996)
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9704028 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The third way to quantum mechanics is the forgotten first
Authors: S.Antoci, D.-E.Liebscher
Comments: 17 pages, Latex
Subj-class: History of Physics; General Physics
Journal-ref: Ann.Fond.Louis de Broglie, 21 (1996), 349-368

physics/9707014 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Weinberg Formalism and a New Look at the Electromagnetic Theory
Author: Valeri V. Dvoeglazov (Escuela de Fisica, UAZ)
Comments: ReVTeX file, 34pp. To appear as Chapter 12 of "The Enigmatic Photon. Vol. 4" (Eds. M. W. Evans, G. Hunter, S. Jeffers and J.-P. Vigier, Kluwer Academic, 1997)
Subj-class: History of Physics
Journal-ref: "The Enigmatic Photon. Vol. 4: New Directions" (eds. M. W. Evans, J.-P. Vigier, S. Roy and G. Hunter), Chapter 12, pp. 305-353

quant-ph/9708012 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: The Discovery of Squeezed States - In 1927
Author: Michael Martin Nieto
Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX, to be published in the Procxeedings of the 5th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations
Subj-class: Quantum Physics; History of Physics

physics/9709038 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Subatomic Physics-100 Not Out and Still Going Strong!
Author: Avinash Khare
Comments: 11 pages, To appear in Resonance--Journal of Science Education
Subj-class: Physics Education; History of Physics
Journal-ref: Curr.Sci. 74 (1998) 191-195

hep-th/9709090 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Evolution of (Ward-)Takahashi Relations and How I Used Them
Authors: R. Jackiw
Comments: 11 pages, 1 figure, BoxedEPS, REVTeX; email to jackiw@mitlns.mit.edu
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

hep-th/9709212 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: What is quantum field theory and why have some physicists abandoned it?
Authors: R. Jackiw
Comments: Email correspondence to jackiw@mitlns.mit.edu ; 4 pages, LaTeX
Subj-class: High Energy Physics - Theory; History of Physics

physics/9710007 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Ludwig Boltzmann -- A Pioneer of Modern Physics
Authors: D. Flamm
Comments: 5 pages, Latex
Subj-class: History of Physics

physics/9710027 [abs, src, ps, other] :

Title: Faster Than Light ?
Authors: J. E. Maiorino, W. A. Rodrigues Jr
Comments: 12 pages, Latex2e article, with figures. Requires packages epsfig and graphicx. Figure 2 has been corrected
Subj-class: Popular Physics; Classical Physics; History of Physics