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Portrait of Dennis Gabor
. Source. A physicist.[ref]
Professional profile of Juris Upatnieks. Independent professional profile
[ref]https://www.researchlatvia.gov.lv/en/memoriam-juris-upatnieks-07051936-17052026. Independent professional profile
Portrait of Juris Upatnieks
. University of Michigan. News and Information Services. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of John Robert Schrieffer
. Unknown author; Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo, ANEFO collection. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
Professional profile of Ivar Giaever. Independent professional profile
[ref]https://archives.rpi.edu/institute-history/commencement-speakers-honorary-degree-recipients?page=5. Independent professional profile
Portrait of Ivar Giaever
. Bruce Sampson / NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet; 12 March 2010; existing Commons crop by TommyG. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist who developed models of antiferromagnetism.[ref]
Louis Néel: institutional research history. Independent professional research and appointment; see profile text
Portrait of Louis Néel
. Farabola; existing Commons cleanup by Materialscientist. Public domain per Commons PD-Italy and PD-1996: Italian simple-photograph term and U.S. non-restoration conditions stated on File. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of Leo Esaki
. Unknown photographer (Asahi Shinbun / The Asahi Shimbun). Public domain under Japanese copyright law (as stated on Commons File page). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of Ben Roy Mottelson
. GFHund, July 1963; existing Commons grayscale and noise adjustments by Materialscientist. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
https://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/pdf-files/Rainwater.pdf. Independent professional identity
Portrait of James Rainwater
. Keystone. Public domain in the United States (publication without copyright notice, as stated on Commons). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of Burton Richter
. Eddie Adams / Associated Press; 29 November 1976; existing Commons version uploaded by Based5290. Public domain in the United States: publication without copyright notice (PD-US-no-notice). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
Professional profile of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. Independent professional identity
Portrait of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
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Portrait of Abdus Salam
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Portrait of Steven Weinberg
. © 2010 Larry D. Moore; Texas Book Festival, Austin. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, as specified on current File page., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
https://www.nokia.com/blog/in-memory-of-arno-penzias-the-bell-labs-researcher-who-explained-the-origins-of-the-universe/. Independent professional identity
Portrait of Arno Allan Penzias
. Kartik J at English Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
Professional profile of Dieter Haidt. 23 September 2011, Dieter Haidt gewinnt Enrico-Fermi-Preis: explicitly identifies the DESY physicist
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. 
- Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact