Nuclear Fission

Missing Elements in the Periodic Table

Early Nuclear Physics

Do neutrinos have mass?

Vera Rubin and Dark Matter  

I. Scientific documents of historical interest:

Blau' observations of proton tracks in nuclear emulsions

On the periods of 25 variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud - by Henrietta Leavitt, HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY, Circular 173, March 3, 1912.

E. Noether's Discovery of the Deep Connection Between Symmetries and Conservation Laws

"Surface Tension", Nature, March 12 1891 - Letter written to Lord Rayleigh by Agnes Pockels

The Origin and Growth of Ripple Marks. (sand ripples) By Mrs. Hertha Ayrton. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A84: 285 (1910)

Reminiscences of Mrs. Ayrton by A. P. Trotter, past President of The Institution of Electrical Engineers (London)

An account of the history of the Ayrton fan by A. P. Trotter,

1899 Gold Medal of Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters for Kirstine Meyer's paper

Bruria Kaufman's derivation of the partition function of the 2-dimensional Ising model.

Short-Range Order in a Binary Ising Lattice by Bruria Kaufman and Lars Onsager

Possible evidence for tau -> pi + nu(tau) - a characteristic hadronic decay mode of a heavy lepton - G. Hanson 1978 memo

II. Biographical documents:

Acceptance Speech for the Presidency of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

"E. Margaret Burbidge, President-Elect" by Vera C. Rubin

Autobiographical Sketch of Sandra M. Faber

"Inge Lehmann: Reminiscences" by Bertha Swirles Jeffreys