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Institute of Physics
American Institute of Physics
AIP virtual journals - online collections in five specific areas including superconductivity, biological physics, nanoscale science & technology, quantum information and ultrafast science.
Royal Society Journals Digital Archive (from 1665) "Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings."
CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Conferences, events, online books, links etc. Birthplace of the world wide web.
Physics Web at IOP An excellent Internet resource for physics.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
National Geophysical Data Center - USDOC, NOAA, NESDIS
Electrostatics weblinks - courtesy of Electrostatic Applications.
Physics Encyclopedia - features links to introductory and advanced topics resources across a range of core topics in physics; courtesy of Igor Ivanov.
Particle Data Group - is an "international collaboration that reviews particle physics and related areas of astrophysics". Home site of The Review of Particle Physics - provides databases and links.
The Particle Detector Briefbook - courtesy of CERN "This is a condensed handbook, or an extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects around particle detectors, the underlying physics, and the analysis of their data. It intends to be both introduction for newcomers and reference for physicists working in the field." See also the Data Analysis Briefbook
The Neutrino Oscillation Industry
Fundamental Physical Constants - the NIST reference on constants, units and uncertainty, courtesy of the NIST Physics Laboratory - provides the CODATA internationally recommended values.
Kaye & Laby Tables of Physical & Chemical Constants - this online version includes the entire, unedited contents of the 16th edition (published 1995), NPL.
NIST Physical Reference Databases - everything from the Atomic Spectroscopic Database to Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons, and Helium Ions.
The WWW Virtual Library of Physics
Physical Sciences Information Gateway - a significant resource which includes lecture notes and tutorials on topics in physics, astronomy, earth sciences, chemistry and materials.
String Theory
Cambridge Relativity - a well written range of brief tutorials on cosmology, black holes, cosmic strings, inflation and quantum gravity. For instance, M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings
Nanophysics research at ETH Zurich
Photonics Industry Dictionary - Comprehensive explanations covering an extensive range of devices in the subcategories of fiber optics, lasers, optoelectronics and optical components.
Encyclopedia of Laser Physics - courtesy of RP Photonics.

>>>>NOBEL PRIZES

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2002
The 2001 prize Institute of Physics (IOP) quote: The 100th Nobel Prize for Physics been awarded to the researchers who created the first Bose-Einstein condensates - the so-called fifth state of matter - in the laboratory. Eric Cornell of JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carl Wieman of JILA and the University of Colorado,share the 2001 prize for "the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
2000
The 1999 prize was (quote IOP) awarded to Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman for their theoretical contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics. In the early 1970s 't Hooft and Veltman showed how to "renormalize" or remove the infinities from the electroweak theory of Salam and Weinberg, and how to use the theory to make precise calculations of particle properties. The official citation reads "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics."
1998 Laughlin, Stormer and Tsui for the discovery and explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. To learn more about what this is also see Introduction to the Quantum Hall Effect by Y. Qui, Johns Hopkins University.
1997 Chu, Cohen-Tannoudji and Phillips for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
1996 Lee, Osheroff and Richardson for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
1995 Perl for the discovery of the tau-lepton and Reines for the detection of the neutrino.
1994 Brockhouse for the development of neutron spectroscopy and Shull for the development of the neutron diffraction technique.
1993 Hulse and Taylor for the discovery of a new type of pulsar.
1992 Charpak for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.

>>>>SPACE PHYSICS, ETC.

The Astrophysics Data System an extensive online abstract service, courtesy of NASA. ADS also has a digital library containing several online books including: Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics by M.V. Zombeck.
Space Image Libraries A service provided by NASA's Aerospace Education Services Program. The latest Hubble images and much more.
Space Physics Data Facility - Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA
NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, California Institute of Technology.
Earth Observing System Data a resource for Earth Sciences data provided by NASA.
The Lovell Radio Telescope at Joddrel Bank The birthplace of radio astronomy.
The Royal Greenwich Observatory founded by Charles II in 1675, this is Britain's oldest scientific institution.
CNOC - the Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology.
Space and Atmospheric Physics Group - Imperial College.
Infrared astronomy - provided by NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.
Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) - UCLA.

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