The Trouble with Superlatives
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796214
[Editor’s Note: This is one of several letters we received on this subject. We contacted the publisher, World Scientific Publishing Co, whose editor-in-chief sent us the following response.]
K. K. Phua Replies: After consulting the series editor of the book The Discovery of Anti-matter, we admit that we erred. Indeed, William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. We will insert an erratum i the book to the effect that Carl Anderson was the second youngest. Two professors in the history of physics missed this point when they reviewed the book for us.
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.
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K. K. Phua, World Scientific Publishing Co, River Edge, New Jersey, US .
