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Fill your notebook with copious entries
Your first article post
  • Feb 28, 2023
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Emil Paechter was one of 30 first cousins
Our Paechter branch grows wider yet—all roads lead to Berlin (and onward)
  • Feb 27, 2023
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Rosa listed as painter in 1925
More insights from Wohlgemuth phone listings
  • Feb 26, 2023
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1924 Hamburg passenger list
Rosa Wohlemuth was an art dealer
  • Feb 26, 2023
Learning more about Helga's Tante Rosa
  • Feb 26, 2023
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Masato Morita CV on Prabook
Columbia research fellow Masato Morita described Rustad-Ruby post-deadline presentation
  • Mar 21, 2022
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Paper has first citation to Rustad-Ruby experiment
Wu first cited the RR experiment months ahead of its publication
  • Mar 18, 2022
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Eugene D. Commins mentored Allan Franklin as an undergrad
Franklin's interest in the Rustad-Ruby experiment goes back to the summer of 1958
  • Mar 16, 2022
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1965 report that references Stan's feasibility study
Stan evaluated the feasibility of gamma-ray lasers for the Air Force in 1964
  • Feb 08, 2022
Stan listed Wu as a reference in his Argonne employment application form
  • Feb 06, 2022
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Experience statement circa 1974
From Stan's CV files: "This degree was not received"
  • Feb 05, 2022
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ASTP classroom at Louisiana State
The rise and fall of the Army Specialized Training Program
  • Feb 04, 2022
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Modern street view of 671 W. 162nd Street
The Ruby family lived in Washington Heights in 1925
  • Feb 03, 2022
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Fourth Company engineering sections
Stan's training at Clemson is recorded in Army ASTP records
  • Jan 28, 2022
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Professor Wu in the lab
The experiment that went wrong—from Wu's perspective
  • Jan 24, 2022
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Sign outside of Wu's laboratory
Wu and her students—excerpts from Chapter 8 of the Chinese biography
  • Jan 24, 2022
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Wu-Yuan family with granddaughter Jada
Physics and family—the third rail of the experiment story
  • Jan 22, 2022
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Modern view of former Ruby family home on New Lots Ave.
Fire at the luggage store—one last item about the other Stanley Ruby
  • Jan 21, 2022
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1949 Manhattan phone book
Yup, Stan had a doppelganger
  • Jan 20, 2022
Wait a minute! Now I am finding another Dr. Stanley Ruby
  • Jan 20, 2022
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Stanley Ruby's graduate school transcript
The uranium recovery project was ramping up just as Stan finished his graduate studies
  • Jan 18, 2022
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BNL Chemistry Department in 1952
Was there a different Stanley Ruby who was a chemist?
  • Jan 18, 2022
Stan’s employment at Brookhaven is recorded in the lab’s annual and quarterly reports
  • Jan 17, 2022
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Hassialis directed the U.S. project on uranium recovery
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About Professor M.D. (John) Hassialis
  • Jan 16, 2022
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Research was in technique for nuclear chemistry
When I first discovered Stan's 1954 doctoral dissertation
  • Jan 15, 2022
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Stan reached out to Hans Frauenfelder in May 2003
Action At a Distance: Stan's later work and speculations will be collected in a new family story
  • Jan 11, 2022
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Modern understanding of neutron beta decay (with quarks and bosons)
The nature of the interaction
  • Jan 10, 2022
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Allan Franklin, professor emeritus
Franklin's career path from particle physics to philosophy of science
  • Jan 09, 2022
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Alfred O. C. Nier
Rustad studied under nuclear pioneer Alfred Nier in Minnesota—that’s what brought him to Columbia in 1942
  • Jan 09, 2022
Walter's take: Fumigate the basement, but don't neglect Stan's achievements
  • Jan 08, 2022

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