American Physical Society Editorial Office
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"Milestone" series highlights significant papers
from the 50
years of Physical Review Letters
Contact: Amy Halsted
American Physical Society
halsted aps.org,
631-591-4232
Ridge, NY, April 10, 2008 - In connection with the 50th
Anniversary Celebration of Physical Review Letters, a
chronological series of "milestone" papers from
each year of the
journal are being selected, briefly described, and posted
each
week: http://prl.aps
.org/50years/milestones. An RSS feed for
Milestones is available, to raise awareness and facilitate
site
visits.
Milestone Letters have made long-lived contributions to
physics,
either by announcing significant discoveries, or by
initiating
new areas of research. Many of them report on work that was
later
recognized with a Nobel Prize for one or more of the
authors.
Milestones from 1958, the first year of PRL's existence,
appeared
in the week of January 2; the most recent posting is from
1970.
Upcoming weeks will feature four successive years
(1972-1975)
with Letters resulting in one or more Nobel Prizes. The
series
will continue through the anniversary year, culminating with
papers from 2000.
The Editor of this PRL retrospective is Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus
Martin Blume, assisted by PRL editor Yonko Millev. Selection
of
the "milestone" papers has not been an easy task,
given the
journal's mission to publish the most important developments
in
physics. An effort has been made to obtain a distribution of
such
articles in the various fields of physics. "It is
inevitable that
some very important work will not be featured," Blume
observed.
"This shows the breadth and high quality of the
contents of
Physical Review Letters."
About the APS: The American Physical Society is the world's
largest professional body of physicists, representing over
45,000
physicists in academia and industry in the US and
internationally. It has offices in Ridge, NY and College
Park,
MD. For more information: www.aps.org.
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