Melvin Schwartz papers, 1950-2009

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Series VI: Physics Articles and Papers



Box 1 Folder 1 "Nobel Lectures in Physics 1988" – reprint Reviews of Modern Physics 61, no. 3, July 1989


Box 1 Folder 2 "Understanding Wave Characteristics via Linear Superposition of Retarded Fields" by H.M. Lai, Y.P. Lau, and W.H. Wong – reprint American Journal of Physics 70, no 2, February 2002

(with compliments slip signed by H.M. Lai)


Box 1 Folder 9 "Ejection of Fragments in Supernova Explosions" – paper by A. Loeb, F.A. Rasio, and J. Shaham. Undated.


Box 1 Folder 11 "Leptonic Decays of Hadron" by L.-M. Chounet, J.-M Gaillard, and M.K. Gaillard. European Organization for Nuclear Reseach. Geneva, 1971

(photocopy)


Box 1 Folder 12 "Chapter 7 The CERN Neutrino Experiment" no author no date

(NB: This is a chapter from Martinius Veltman's book, "Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics."


Box 1 Folder 15 "Communication via One- and Two-Particle Operators on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen States" by Charles H. Bennett and Stephen J. Wiesner, Physical Review Letters 69 no. 20, 16 November 1992

(Offprint, with envelope from Wiesner attached)


Box 1 Folder 19 "The Energy Levels of Pi-Muonium" by C.F. Cho. "Il Nuovo Cimento" 23A, no. 3, 1 Octobre 1974

(Offprint)


Box 1 Folder 20 Hunting the Quark Gluon Plasma: Results from the First 3 Years at RHIC. , April 18, 2005


Box 1 Folder 21 Note by Bogdan Maglich entitled "Aftermath of Ne'eman-Maglich Session at HADRONS 2001: Re-discovery of Fine Structure in Meson Spectrum and Emergence of Ultra-High Resoltuion Hadron Spectrometer", Feb 18, 2003


Box 1 Folder 25 Package of papers on quantum computing and cryptography from Steve Wiesner


Box 1 Folder 27 Manila folder containing papers related to "exotic atoms"


Box 1 Folder 28 Blue folder containing material relating to pi-mu atoms experiments


Box 1 Folder 32 "Bose-Einstein Correlations for Nixed Neutral Mesons" by Harry J. Lipkin, Physical Review Letters 69 no. 26, (Photocopy), 28 December 1992


Box 1 Folder 33 "Bose-Einstein Correlation Effect in a Boson-Anti-Boson System." By Gideon Alexander. Photocopy manuscript, January 18, 1994


Box 1 Folder 35 Papers by Lee and Yang (individually) relating to parity violation


Box 1 Folder 36 "Weak Interactions: Leptonic Modes – Experimental" M. Goldhaber, rapporteur, 30 June – 5 July 1958

(Reprinted from 1958 Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics at CERN)


Box 1 Folder 37 "The Intrinsic Parity of Elementary Particles" – by G.C. Wick, A.S. Wightman, and E.P. Wigner. Physical Review 88, no. 1, October 1, 1952


Box 1 Folder 38 "Einstein, Michelson, and the 'Crucial' Experiment" by Gerald Holton. Isis vol 60 part 2 no. 202. Reprint., 1969


Box 1 Folder 39 "Notes on Statistics for Physicists" by Jay Orear. UC Berkeley Rad Lab UCRL-8417. (Mimeographed)


Box 1 Folder 40 "Indication, from Pioneer 10/11, Galileo, and Ulysses Data, of an Apparent Anomalous Weak, Long-Range Acceleration." Bu John D. Anderson, Philip A. Laing, Eunice L. Lau, Anthony S. Liu, Michael Martin Nieto, and Slava G. Turyshev. Physical Review Letters 81 no 14 (Photocopy), October 5 1998


Box 1 Folder 41 "The Fundamental Physical Constants." By E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor. Physics Today (Clipping), August 1966


Box 1 Folder 42 "The Biology of Heavy Water" by Joseph J. Katz. Scientific American, 1960


Box 1 Folder 43 "Observaions of the Failure of Conservation of Parity and Charge Conjugation in Meson Decays: The Magnetic Moment of the Free Muon." By Richard L. Garwin, Leon M. Lederman, and Marcel Weinrich. Physics Review, Letters to the Editor, no date (received January 15 1957) (Photocopy incomplete)


Box 1 Folder 44 "Deuterated Organisms: Cultivation and Uses," Joseph J. Katz and Henry L. Crispi. Science, vol 151, (Photocopy), 11 March 1966


Box 1 Folder 45 "Blockage of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis by Deuterium Oxide" by Paul R. Gross and Clifford V. Harding, Science vol 137(?) (Photocopy), 14 April 1961


Box 1 Folder 46 "Quantitative Technique for Bio-Electrical Spectroscopy" by J. Jossinet, A. Lobel, C. Michaudet, and M. Schmitt. Journal of Biomedical Engineering Vol 7 (Photocopy), October 1985


Box 1 Folder 47 "Circadian Activity Rhythm of the Deer Mouse, Peromyscus: Effect of Deuterium Oxide" by Robert B. Suter and Kenneth S. Rawson, Science vol 160 (?) (Photocopy), 31 May 1968


Box 1 Folder 48 "Helicity of Neutrinos" by M. Goldhabet, L. Grodzins, and A.W. Sunyar. Physical Review 109, no. 3 . (Reprint), February 1 1958


Box 1 Folder 49 "The Nucleus as an Assembly of Quarks" by Shoji Magamiya. Nevis Laboraties, Columbia University. Presented in Tokyo, December 5-7 1990


Box 1 Folder 50 Unidentifable page from experimental presentation


Box 1 Folder 51 "Guide for Metric Practice." By Robert A. Nelson. Physics Today (Clipping), August 1966


Box 1 Folder 52 Manila folder of Physical Review articles (Photocopies)


Box 1 Folder 54 "Hardball Physics" by Luis W. Alvarez. Xerox ms. marked "For posthumous publication only." RL Garwin's copy

(NB: Of great historical interest)


Box 1 Folder 55 Draft chapters of Physics in the Twentieth Century by Melvin Schwartz


Box 1 Folder 59 "Mind Over Matter: The Intellectual Context of Experimental Physics" by V.L. Telegdi. Inscribed by the author to Melvin Schwartz. CERN, 2 November 1990

(Attached letter from Telegdi to schwartz dated Nov 12 1990, commenting on Jerome Friedman Nobel Prize and cryptic PS)


Box 1 Folder 62 Articles and offprints by Joseph A. Mazzeo


Box 1 Folder 66 "Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter – The Next Layer." By Haim Harari. Draft ms. for Scientific American, August 27 1982


Box 1 Folder 71 CERN Press Review, 31 October 1988