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Handout links for Quantum Theory Matters

The talk Quantum Theory Matters is accompanied by several handouts, some of which, for copyright reasons, cannot be stored at this site. Instead, we provide links to original sources, but access to some of them may depend on your institutional affiliation and its journal and database license agreements.

Handouts

• Periodic table of elements.
• Atomic isotopes and their half lives .
• Berkeley scientists report first evidence that dinosaur extinction caused by meteorite impact .
• Chicxulub crater near Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, from asteroid impact that wiped out dinosaurs, and most other life, from Earth about 65 million years ago. For that story, see the book T. rex and the crater of doom .
• Albert Einstein's view towards the famous clock from his apartment window in Bern, Switzerland.
• Entrance to Einstein's apartment building in Bern.
• Street view of the Bern clock.
• Gravitational bending of starlight.
• Hubble Telescope image of gravitational lens.
• Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur cartoon on the difference between scientific and popular use of the word theory.

Handouts: historical documents

• Lights All Askew in the Heavens … Einstein Theory Triumphs [New York Times 9 November 1919].
  It was this experimental confirmation of the predictions of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity that made him widely known to the general public.
• Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen, … [4 December 1930].
  Wolfgang Pauli's letter suggesting a new particle — the neutrino.
• How to explain the Universe [New York Times 11 January 1931].
• Nobel Prize in Physics of 1932 to Heisenberg, and 1933 to Dirac and Schrödinger [New York Times 10 November 1933].
• Atom Explosion Frees 200,000,000 Volts; New Physics Phenomenon Credited to Hahn [New York Times 29 January 1939].
  First public announcement in the USA of the discovery in Germany of nuclear fission six weeks earlier.
• Vast Energy Freed by Uranium Atom: Split, It Produces 2 `Cannonballs', Each of 100,000,000 Electron Volts [New York Times 31 January 1939].
• 6 Elements Found in Uranium Atom: Physicists Bare Discovery of Greatest Amount of Energy Liberated Thus Far: Report Widely Hailed: Professors Bohr and Fermi, at Columbia Meeting, Tell of Atomic `Cannon Ball' [New York Times 25 February 1939].
  Further publicity of the quick repetition of nuclear fission at several US universities.
• Albert Einstein letters to US President Roosevelt (1939, 1940, 1945) about the danger of a Nazi nuclear-weapons program.
• President Roosevelt's reply to Albert Einstein (1939).
• Third Way to Split Atom [New York Times 3 March 1941].
• U.S. Hydrogen Bomb Delay Urged Pending Bid to Soviet: Officials, Said to Include Lilienthal, Appeal to President to Seek Agreement and Thus Avert Making Weapon of Terrible Power [New York Times 17 January 1950].
  Front page story about the hydrogen bomb, largely a secret kept from the public until that time.
• Obituary: Dr. Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76 [New York Times 19 April 1955].
• Father of Relativity and Outstanding Pacifist Inspired U.S. to Make Atomic Bomb [New York Times 19 April 1955].
  Obituary of Albert Einstein.
• Ripples of the Big Bang Are Seen Through ``The Times'' [New York Times 17 November 2014].
  Retrospective on the news of the Big Bang: 1927, 1931, 1932, ….

News of contemporary research arising from quantum theory and relativity

• True Origin of the Man in the Moon [Scientific Computing 3 October 2014]
• Physics Fundamentals Confirmed: Testing Einstein's Time Dilation, Quantum Electrodynamics [Scientific Computing 9 October 2014]
• A brighter design emerges for low-cost, ``greener'' LED light bulbs [R&D Magazine 15 October 2014]
  Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for LED technology.
• Earth's magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime [R&D Magazine 17 October 2014]
• Nanocryotron could unlock power of superconducting computer chips [Scientific Computing 17 October 2014]

Bibliographic resources

There are two huge bibliography archives from which you can find much more:

• http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet
• http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib

The first contains primarily author-specific and subject-specific bibliographies. Those related to this talk include coverage of the works of these scientists, and publications about them and their works:

• Hans Bethe
• Niels Bohr
• Max Born
• James Clerk Maxwell [in preparation: not yet released]
• Louis de Broglie
• Paul Dirac
• Freeman Dyson
• Albert Einstein [this bibliography of 6300+ entries also contains sections on nuclear technology, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and the Nobel Prizes]
• Enrico Fermi
• Richard Feynman
• George Gamow
• Werner Heisenberg
• Leopold Infeld
• Ettore Majorana
• Nick Metropolis
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Wolfgang Pauli
• Max Planck
• Ernest Rutherford
• Erwin Schrödinger
• John Slater
• Leo Szilard
• Edward Teller
• Stan Ulam
• John von Neumann
• Eugene Wigner

In each case, the bibliographies include the complete works of the scientist, and in a second section, publications about the scientist and his works.

To get the BibTeX file for any of those, simply change .html to .bib in your browser address bar, and save the returned file. They look the same on the screen, except that the former has active hyperlinks, and the latter can be used by BibTeX to generate and sort reference lists in any of hundreds of citation styles. Readers who are unfamiliar with BibTeX may find this tutorial helpful.