By Marie Curie; translated with bibliographical supplements by Walter Kaufmann. Third unchanged German edition, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig, 1904; French thesis, 1903.
Cited passage: chapter I(b), measurement of radiation intensity, Figures 1–3. Gutenberg release 2011 and update 2020 are digitization dates.
By Henri Becquerel. Académie des sciences communication, 2 March 1896. Cédric Van Rompay hosts the inspected French transcription.
Cited passages: opaque screens, dark storage, five-hour controlled exposures, and the closing cautious hypothesis.
Ernst Ruska by Technische Universität Berlin by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional historical biography by Technische Universität Berlin; undated.
Cited indexed passage: the 1933 instrument’s improvement over optical resolution. Full webpage fetch unavailable; month and detailed performance values are not adopted.
Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) by JEOL by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional instrument introduction by JEOL; undated.
Cited passages: electron-beam operation, imaging signals, and instrument principles.
Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) by JEOL by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional instrument introduction by JEOL; undated.
Cited passages: electron-beam operation, imaging signals, and instrument principles.
By Ernst Ruska. Nobel lecture delivered 8 December 1986; reprinted in Reviews of Modern Physics 59, 627–638 (1987), DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.59.627.
Cited passages: reprint §§C–E, pp. 628–631, Figures 1–5; inspected transcription and Nobel-indexed excerpt.
By Sandip Pakvasa. arXiv:1805.09412v3; first submitted 23 May 2018, revised 4 June 2018.
Cited passages: pp. 1–4, original orbital interpretation, later spin interpretation, and free-electron qualification.
By Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern. Zeitschrift für Physik 9, 349–352 (1922), received 1 March. English translation by Martin Bauer, arXiv:2301.11343v1, 26 January 2023.
Cited passages: Experimental setup; Results, Figures 1–5; closing measurement caveat.
Light Radiation in a Magnetic Field by Pieter Zeeman by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Pieter Zeeman. Nobel lecture delivered 2 May 1903, following the 1902 prize. University of Maryland hosts the inspected lecture mirror; neither host is the lecture author.
Cited passages: opening experimental account, sodium broadening, cadmium components, and polarization.
By John H. Hubbell and Stephen M. Seltzer. NIST Standard Reference Database 126; online May 1996, data updated July 2004.
Additional material-table locators: Table 4: Water, Liquid and Table 4: Polymethyl Methacrylate. In the mass-attenuation column, the 0.03 MeV rows give 0.3756 and 0.3032 square centimetres per gram respectively; the 0.1 MeV rows give 0.1707 and 0.1641. The separate mass energy-absorption columns describe a different interaction quantity. These page-specific values support energy-dependent material comparisons.
Additional spectral-response locators: Section 3: photon energy fluence relation and equation (13), mass energy-absorption coefficient. In the energy-absorption columns of the Table 4 Water, Liquid and Polymethyl Methacrylate pages, the 0.03 MeV values are 0.1557 and 0.09645 square centimetres per gram, and the 0.1 MeV values are 0.02546 and 0.02368 respectively. These are distinct from the mass-attenuation values already cited for the same energy rows.
On a New Kind of Rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen; translated by Arthur Stanton. Original communication, 1895; English translation, Nature 53, 274–276, 23 January 1896. Inspected later reprint, pp. 153–157, reproducing Science NS3, 227–231 (1896).
Cited passages: §§1–6, 11–17.
Cathode Rays by Joseph John Thomson by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Joseph John Thomson. Philosophical Magazine, series 5, 44, 293–316 (1897); DOI 10.1080/14786449708621070. Le Moyne College hosts the transcription.
Cited passages: electrostatic deflection, Figure 2; the second determination of mass-to-charge ratio; electrode-material comparisons.
National Archives and Records Administration institutional collection description; last reviewed 3 June 2019. This review date is distinct from the dates of Millikan’s papers.
Cited passages: collection title, experimental-physicist identity, life years, and labelled Caltech portrait.
Institutional laureate directory of the Niels Bohr Institute. Entry dates do not establish a publication date for the whole directory.
Cited passage: Niels Bohr’s 1885–1962 life years.
The Nobel Prize (Niels Bohr) by Niels Bohr Institute by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Niels Bohr Institute institutional history article, published 18 July 2012.
Cited passages: Bohr’s 1922 award and its atomic-structure and radiation subject. No individual byline is asserted.
By Susanne Kiewitz; institutional editor, Max Planck Society. Berlin, 2016. The date belongs to the first printed book, not to the webpage.
Max Planck by Lorenz Friedrich Beck by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
By Lorenz Friedrich Beck. Historical biography hosted by the Max Planck Society; no webpage publication date is verified.
Cited passages: author byline, life years, physics appointments, and radiation research. Hosting institution and individual authorship are distinguished.
By Robert Andrews Millikan. Physical Review 7(3), 355–388; March 1916. DOI 10.1103/PhysRev.7.355.
Cited passages: §§1–3, pp. 355–367, Figures 1–3; §4, pp. 372–375, Figures 5–6; §5, pp. 380–382. This is the March paper, distinct from the January 1916 paper.

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!
We have two killer features:
  1. 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-calculus
    Articles 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/derivative
  2. 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.
    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.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
    .
    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
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