Richard L. Garwin

parity nonconservation(4) meson physics(1) Rustad-Ruby experiment(1) angular correlation(1)

dissertation(1) journal letter(1) technical report(1) commentary(1) letter to the editor(1) oral history(1)

Date	Publication	Author(s)	Citation title	Comments
December 1949	Unpublished	Richard L. Garwin	An Experimental Investigation of the Beta-Gamma Angular Correlation in Beta Decay	Garwin's dissertation was in beta-gamma angular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.

Date	Publication	Author	Citation title	Comments
April 21, 1958	Unpublished	Chien-Shiung Wu, A. Schwarzschild	A Critical Examination of the He⁶ Recoil Experiment of Rustad and Ruby	Wu repudiates Rustad-Ruby experiment in unpublished CU-173 Columbia University report.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April 21, 1958	Unpublished	Chien-Shiung Wu, A. Schwarzschild	A Critical Examination of the He⁶ Recoil Experiment of Rustad and Ruby	Wu repudiates Rustad-Ruby experiment in unpublished CU-173 Columbia University report.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.