Highlights: 35 Years
of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook

1967: Yang - Baxter Equations
1968-75: Coexistence of Spherical and Highly Deformed States in Nuclei
1968-83: Tandem Injected Superconducting HI-LINAC
1969-99: Magnetic Monopoles
1972: First submillimeter observations of the Galactic Center
1972-80: Identification of the Meson Presence in Nuclei
1973: Ising-Model Correlation Functions
The total proton proton collision cross section increases with increasing energy
1975: Discovery of the Milky Way "Molecular Ring"
1976: Viking Spacecraft analyze Mars atmosphere
Supergravity
Large transverse momentum anomalous electron production in pion proton interactions below the charm quark threshold
1977: QCD Jets
1978: Giant Molecular Clouds identified as a major component of the Milky Way.
1979-86: Voyagers Encounter Giant Planets
1979-90: Theory of the Collapse and Explosion of Very Large Stars
1980: Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscope
Discovery of excited states of the Upsilon (bound states of b and bbar quarks)
1981: Neutrino Mass Tests
First laser cooling of neutral atoms
1982: Fission Isomer g-Factors
1983: Hyper-Kaehler Quotients
1985: First trapping of neutral atoms, also optical molasses
First quantum chaos measurements
1985-89: Measurement of elastic scattering of neutrinos from electrons and protons confirms Standard Model predictions of neutral currents
1986: Man-made CFCs proven to cause the newly discovered Antarctic "ozone hole"
1987: Neutrinos from SN 1987A as predicted
1988: Establishment of Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres
Measurement of lowest temperature in the universe - micro K's
1988-99: Density Dependence of Meson Masses in Nuclei, Enhanced Dileptons
1989: Composite Fermion interpretation of Quantum Hall Effect
Particle-Particle Correlations in HI Collisions
First observation of quantum suppression of classical chaos
1990: Charge and Spin Separation in 1D Hubbard Model
1991: Termination of Quantum Collectivity - Coexistence
1994: Structure of Fullerene solids solved
Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) and Fission Time Scales
Gammasphere Nuclear Structure Probe
Top Quark Cross Section
1994-99: Kaon condensation in Dense Matter
1995: Most precise (still) absolute electric field calibration
Discovery of the top quark with a mass of 175 GeV
1995-99: Evolution of Black Hole - Neutron Star Binaries and Their Mergers to give Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Ray Bursters
1996: Laser Trapping of Radioactive Francium
Galaxies beyond z=5 identified
(A 2 Mb file!)
First isolated Neutron Star discovered
1996-99: Measurement of electroweak interaction properties (W mass, gauge boson couplings)
1996-99: Confirmation of QCD to the 1 attometer scale using high transverse momentum jets and W/Z bosons
1997: Fractional Charge observed in Quantum Hall Antidots
Relativistic Au+Au Studies at AGS
Properties of Bose condensation with attractive interactions
1998: Schroedinger's Cat Glimpsed in Josephson Junctions
Discovery of atmospheric neutrino oscillations from the asymmetry of up- and down-going neutrino induced events
1999: PHENIX - RHIC
First measurement of the electric field of a single photon wavepacket