retrospective

Authors

Catherine Westfall(1) Robert Pound(1) Leon Lidofsky(1) Joseph Sucher(1) Herbert L. Anderson(1) R. E. Marshak(1) R. P. Hudson(1) D. Allan Bromley(1) M. Gell-Mann(1)

Subjects

parity nonconservation(4) Rustad-Ruby experiment(2) V–A theory(2) Columbia(2) weak-force unification(1) Universal Fermi Interaction (UFI)(1) nuclear physics(1) cyclotron(1) Argonne(1) American Physical Society(1)

Date	Publication	Author(s)	Citation title	Comments
October 1951	Physics Today		The American Physical Society
July 1, 1955	Reviews of Modern Physics	Herbert L. Anderson	Meson Experiments with Enrico Fermi
February 1966	Physics Today		History was made at Columbia
May 1968	Physics Today	D. Allan Bromley	Twenty years of physics: The nucleus
July 25, 1992	Current Science	R. E. Marshak	The Pain and Joy of a Major Scientific Discovery	Extensive excerpts are published because of their relevance to Rustad-Ruby experiment. Marshak reports that Wu remains strongly supportive of RR three months after her parity experiment.
1999	NIST Special Publication 925	Elio Passaglia with Karma A. Beal	A Unique Institution: The National Bureau of Standards 1950-1969	Retrospective of the Parity Violation experiment from the NBS perspective.
July 2000	Electronic Journal of Differential Equations	Joseph Sucher	Columbia physics in the fifties: Untold tales	The life of a Columbia physics grad student in the 50s
2001	NIST Special Publication 958: A Century of Excellence 1901-2000	Ralph P. Hudson	Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics
March 1, 2001	Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society	Leon Lidofsky	CHIEN-SHIUNG WU 29 May 1912-16 February 1997	Lidofsky's appreciation of Wu's career does not address the Rustad-Ruby affair, but is nonetheless illuminating.
May 23, 2003	American Institute of Physics Oral History Archive	Interviewed by: John Rigden	AIP Oral History: Robert Pound—Session II
2006	Physics in Perspective	Catherine Westfall	A Different Laboratory Tale: Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy
2013	Oral History Project	Interviewed by Sara Lippincott	Oral History: Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929)	Gell-Mann discusses the role that challenges to the RR experiment played in the priority dispute over first publication of the universal V–A theory.
2013	Oral History Project	Interviewed by Sara Lippincott	Oral History: Murray Gell-Mann (b. 1929)	Gell-Mann discusses the role that challenges to the RR experiment played in the priority dispute over first publication of the universal V–A theory.