The Physical Review, one of the world's leading journals for research articles in physics, recently celebrated its centenary by developing a collection of 1,000 seminal articles published either in the journal or in Physical Review Letters during its first 100 years.
Two hundred articles were reprinted, and 800 were recorded in an accompanying CD-ROM. Nobel laureate and former Washington University Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton, Ph.D., was recognized with five articles, including one on his theory of the scattering of X-rays, now called the Compton effect, and another on his pioneering work on cosmic rays.
Current members of the Department of Physics in Arts and Sciences represented in the compilation are: Robert M. Walker, Ph.D., McDonnell Professor and director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences in Arts and Sciences, with a 1964 paper describing a new means of detecting tracks of charged particles in solids; Clifford M. Will, Ph.D., professor and chair of physics, with a 1983 paper on a new experimental test of Einstein's principle of equivalence using atomic clocks; and Ramanath Cowsik, Ph.D., visiting professor, with a 1972 paper on the cosmological effects of massive neutrinos.
Former Washington University faculty recognized with articles in the commemorative publication include Edwin T. Jaynes, Edward U. Condon, Eugene Feenberg and Henry Primakoff.
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