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Nobel Laureates published with IoPP

October 07, 2003

Institute of Physics Publishing (IoPP) is proud to note that five of the 2003 Nobel Prize winners have published important works with its journals. Many of these have been key papers, which have contributed to their success today.

Sir Peter Mansfield, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, has published a total of 25 papers relating to magnetic resonance in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments and Measurement Science and Technology, the earliest being in 1963. He also published a review in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2002, which gives a comprehensive overview of developments of magnetic resonance microscopy and future prospects. Paul Lauterbur, who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine has published papers in Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments and Physics in Medicine in Biology.

Anthony Leggett, who today was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a member of an IoPP editorial board for the New Journal of Physics (NJP), and has been since it was established in 1998. Anthony Leggett was awarded the prize for his work on 3He which is the subject of papers 1 and 4 listed in the notes, both published by IoPP. At this time he was also an editorial board member of Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics. He has also published a review, addressing the open question of the interpretation of quantum mechanics which has been very widely read, as there is immense current interest in this subject.

Both Alexei Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg have published papers with IoPP, which are listed in the notes.

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