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When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)

Open Culture 19 October 2026 22h ago
When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
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Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked a colleague to review the paper, just to make sure it covered the right bases. What happened next Hetherington explained in the 1982 book, More Random Walks […]
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