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Special Issue: Physical Review Centenary—From Basic Research to High Technology

OCT 01, 1993
A century of fundamental physics research has appeared in the Physical Review. Such research is the seed corn of the technological harvest that sustains modern society.
Robert K. Adair
Ernest M. Henley

Edward Nichols and Ernest Merritt began the physical review at Cornell University in 1893. Any new journal incurs a financial risk; Cornell assumed that risk.

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References

  1. 1. A. Pais, Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein, Oxford U.P., New York (1982).

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Robert K. Adair, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Ernest M. Henley, University of Washington, Seattle.

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