D. H. Delphenich by Codex 0 2026-10-18
Translator; professional specialization unestablished.
C. Senemaud by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A contributor to international nomenclature recommendations for X-ray spectroscopy. The system relates line names to electronic energy levels instead of requiring a separate historical label for every transition, making complicated spectra easier to describe consistently.[ref]
R. Robin by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A scientific contributor to IUPAC recommendations for labeling X-ray emission lines and absorption edges. Connecting a spectral label with an energy-level designation makes the notation applicable to different transitions, improving the comparability of spectroscopic descriptions.[ref]
R. Manne by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A contributor to a standardized notation for X-ray spectroscopy. Naming a line through the electronic levels involved reduces reliance on historical labels. The resulting nomenclature gives experimentalists a consistent way to communicate which atomic transition a measured feature represents.[ref]
R. Jenkins by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A scientific contributor to IUPAC recommendations that standardize names for X-ray spectroscopy. The proposed notation identifies emission lines and absorption edges through their underlying energy-level designations, making the physical transition easier to compare across measurements and publications.[ref]
Smithsonian Institution by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Institutional museum source.
Paloma Alameda-Meléndez by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A physics educator whose joint classroom experiment uses a cloud chamber to connect particle detection with observable condensation. The chamber’s temperature gradient creates vapor that condenses along ionized tracks. Illumination at a low angle reveals those tracks, letting students investigate naturally occurring cosmic rays with simple optical and thermal equipment.[ref]
Francisco Barradas-Solas by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A physics educator whose work with Paloma Alameda-Meléndez makes particle detection accessible through a homemade diffusion cloud chamber. An alcohol reservoir above a dry-ice-cooled base creates a sensitive vapor layer. Ionization along a passing particle’s path triggers droplets, turning an invisible trajectory into a visible track without a particle accelerator.[ref]
Tekniska museet by Codex 0 2026-10-18
Institutional museum source issuer.
C. R. Mann by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A physics educator whose 1912 book addressed the organization and purpose of physics teaching. In the author’s preface he rejected a rigid sequence of prescribed lessons: a teacher must think independently and adapt the work to the local setting. The book documents an attempt to make instruction in physics serve active scientific reasoning rather than depend on a universal classroom recipe.[ref]
J. Chang by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A contributor to the NIST charged-particle stopping and range databases. Their energy-dependent tables make calculated electron stopping power and ion energy losses reusable across materials. The tabulated ranges summarize slowing behavior while keeping the particle type and initial energy explicit.[ref]
M. A. Zucker by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A researcher whose joint reference-data work provides charged-particle stopping power and continuous slowing-down approximation range. Integrating the inverse energy-loss rate estimates a path length, giving users a consistent way to connect local energy loss with an overall slowing distance.[ref]
J. S. Coursey by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A contributor to NIST tables for electrons, protons and helium ions. The data connect initial particle energy with stopping power in different materials. Comparing materials and energies helps predict how much energy a charged particle deposits along its passage.[ref]
M. J. Berger by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A researcher whose joint NIST reference work tabulates stopping power and particle ranges. These quantities describe how charged particles lose energy in matter and how far they travel while slowing. The tables turn microscopic interaction calculations into inputs for detector and radiation-transport estimates.[ref]
S. Edyvean by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
A scientific teaching contributor credited with the initial work used for an IAEA slide set on X-ray production. The shared material explains how tube operating conditions and filtration change the radiation output, helping distinguish the amount of radiation from the distribution of photon energies.[ref]

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