Serious papers, funny things: hamsters as co-authors, etc. October 6, 2010
Posted by apetrov in Funny, Physics, Science.trackback
I looked at some papers written by yesterday’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. There is a paper, written by Geim some time ago that stands out — not scientifically, but by its list of authors. It is
“Detection of earth rotation with a diamagnetically levitating gyroscope“
A. K. Geim, and H. A. M. S. ter Tisha
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Volumes 294-295, January 2001, Pages 736-739
Note the name of the second hamster author. The rumor is that it is that hamster that was supposed to be the “levitating frog” in the work for which Geim got his Ig Nobel Prize. But it was protested, so the hamster was spared the flight and instead was added as a co-author to this publication.
It would be nice to start a collection of papers like that one. Like this one:
Alpher, R. A., H. Bethe and G. Gamow (1948). “The Origin of Chemical Elements”. Physical Review 73 (7): 803–804. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.73.803 (aka, “alpha-beta-gamma paper”)
And there are others, I’m sure..
V. Gates, E. Kangaroo, M. Roachcock, W.C. Gall, “Stuperspace”, Physica 15D: 289-293, 1985.
I knew of that paper — but I didn’t know that it was actually published!
Yep. They sneaked it in as part of a conference proceedings. Editor didn’t notice.