New Additions

• Carl David Anderson Discovered the positron, mu-meson
• Edward Victor Appleton Proved existence of ionosphere
• Elizabeth Bishop North & South
• Patrick M. S. Blackett Studied cosmic radiation
• Percy Williams Bridgman Investigated high pressure physics
• Hayden Carruth Brothers, I Loved You All
• James Chadwick Discovered the neutron
• Lucille Clifton Good Woman
• John Cockcroft Split the atom
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin Strange Holiness
• Clinton Davisson Diffraction of electrons
• Delia Derbyshire Electronic musician, Doctor Who
• James Dickey Deliverance
• Patrick J. Fitzgerald Special Counsel for Plame case
• Jorie Graham The Dream of the Unified Field
• Victor Francis Hess Proved cosmic origin of radiation
• Richard Howard Untitled Subjects
• Randall Jarrell The Woman at the Washington Zoo
• Carolyn Kizer Yin: New Poems
• Maxine Kumin Up Country
• Phyllis McGinley A Pocketful of Wry
• William Meredith Partial Accounts
• Howard Moss Finding Them Lost
• Lisel Mueller The Need to Hold Still
• Paul Muldoon Moy Sand and Gravel
• Frank O'Hara Meditations in an Emergency
• Mary Oliver American Primitive
• Jean Perrin Verified atomic nature of matter
• Cecil Powell Discovered the pi-meson
• Isidor Isaac Rabi Magnetic beam resonances
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Discovered the Raman Effect
• Owen Willans Richardson Electron emissions of metals
• John G. Roberts, Jr. Bush nominee for Supreme Court
• Edwin Arlington Robinson The Man Against the Sky
• Charles Simic The World Doesn't End
• Louis Simpson At The End of the Open Road
• W. D. Snodgrass Heart's Needle
• William Stafford Travelling Through the Dark
• Otto Stern Molecular beam experiment
• James Tate The Lost Pilot
• Sara Teasdale Strange Victory
• C. K. Williams Repair
• C. T. R. Wilson Invented the Wilson cloud chamber
• James Wright The Branch Will Not Break
• Hideki Yukawa Predicted existence of mesons

Posted: July 20, 2005