Wanting to know what Gamow's original papers looked like? Maybe the early
QM papers? What about the classic weighing of a photon paper by Pound and
Rebka? Or early papers by Feynman, Wheeler, Rabi, Compton, Zwicky,
Oppenheimer, Dicke, Alpher, Weisskopf, Bethe etc etc etc

Well, if they appeared in Physical Review Letters then there is a reasonable
chance they are in the archive, free to peruse or download.

Most papers are scanned (no OCR) and so might be a little big for some
dialup subscribers who find 100k troublesome.

Click on the following link
http://fangio.magnet.fsu.edu/~vlad/pr100/

then select the category of choice in the left hand pain (web page uses
frames), eg I clicked on "Early Years, Papers". Scroll down to the paper of
interest, eg I just selected:

"On the elementary electrical charge and the Avogadro constant"
R.A. Millikan
Phys. Rev. 2, 109-124,133,136-143 (1913)

Click on the link (you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader including the browser
plugin).

The Millikan paper is 25 pages long.

You can now click the save Icon with thin the Adobe window to save the paper
(in PDF format) to your hard drive. My sample paper is 1.6 meg

And it is a classic, glad I finally got a copy

IF your computer *absolutely* refuses to play ball with a paper you *really*
want, drop me a line and I'll retrieve it and send it to you as an
attachment.

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Kind Regards,
Robert Karl Stonjek.