Richard L. Garwin

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* December 1949 Unpublished Richard L. Garwin An Experimental Investigation of the Beta-Gamma Angular Correlation in Beta Decay

Garwin's dissertation was in beta-gamma angular correlation. He later consulted with Wu about the errors in the Rustad-Ruby experiment.

* February 15, 1957 Richard L. Garwin, Leon Lederman, and Marcel Weinrich Observations of the Failure of Conservation of Parity and Charge Conjugation in Meson Decays: the Magnetic Moment of the Free Muon

Garwin-Lederman confirms parity violation in an experiment using mesons

* April 10, 1977 Nature Richard L. Garwin and Leon M. Lederman History of parity violation experiment

Years later in a letter to the editor of Nature, Garwin and Lederman clarify matters of priority and authorship in events leading up to the announcement parity violation experiments.

* June 7, 2001 American Institute of Physics Oral Histories Interviewed by W. Patrick McCray Richard Garwin Oral History

Covers Garwin's recollections of the parity violation experiments, including his role directing Wu to NBS and the circumstances of his and Lederman's K-meson experiment.

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* April 21, 1958 Unpublished Chien-Shiung Wu, A. Schwarzschild A Critical Examination of the He6 Recoil Experiment of Rustad and Ruby

Wu repudiates Rustad-Ruby experiment in unpublished CU-173 Columbia University report. Franklin says letter from Wu to Cavanaugh suggests reexamination was done in November.

 
* April 21, 1958 Unpublished Chien-Shiung Wu, A. Schwarzschild A Critical Examination of the He6 Recoil Experiment of Rustad and Ruby

Wu repudiates Rustad-Ruby experiment in unpublished CU-173 Columbia University report. Franklin says letter from Wu to Cavanaugh suggests reexamination was done in November.

 
* February 13, 1997 Nature Parity and chivalry in nuclear physics

Argument by Oxford physicists for greater credit for parity violation experiment to the NBS team. Does Wu bear responsibility for others who have called it the Wu experiment, downplaying the NBS contribution. Garwin and Lederman replied in a letter to the editor.