Kurt Gottfried

9.1k citations

72 papers · 6.2k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.2%
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 2%
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 26
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 15
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 14
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 13
- Nuclear physics research studies 11
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 16
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics 6
- Atomic and Molecular Physics 5

Co-authors: E. Eichten Kenneth Lane T. Kinoshita T. -M. Yan J.D. Jackson John David Jackson John B. Kogut Tung‐Mow Yan
Journals: Physical Review Letters (8 papers)Nature (6 papers)Physics Today (6 papers)Annals of Physics (3 papers)Scientific American (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland Denmark

In The Last Decade

Kurt Gottfried

68 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Charmonium: Comparison with experiment 1980 · 863 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1980 Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields
1978 Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields
1975 Physical Review Letters

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines American Journal of Physics ·Kurt Gottfried	2010	5
2	On Fraud in Science: An Exchange New York review of books/The New York review of books ·Kurt Gottfried	2005	1
3	Quantum electrodynamics: Matter all in the mind Nature ·Kurt Gottfried	2002	1
4	John S Bell on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks ·Mary Bell, Kurt Gottfried, M. Veltman	2001	43
5	Quantum Mechanics, High Energy Physics and Accelerators: Selected Papers of John S Bell (With Commentary) CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Mary Bell, Kurt Gottfried, M. Veltman	1995	10
6	Nuclear security in a transformed world Kurt Gottfried, Jonathan Dean	1991	2
7	Does quantum mechanics carry the seeds of its own destruction? Physics World ·Kurt Gottfried	1991	0
8	Crisis Stability and Nuclear War Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ·Desmond Ball, Hans A. Bethe, Bruce G. Blair, Paul Bracken, Ashton B. Carter, ChongPek Lian, Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, David Holloway, Henry W. Kendall, William W. Spivey, Richard Ned Lebow, Condoleezza Rice, Largio Rosales, John Steinbruner, Afri Delfiza, Jaro Fock	1987	8
9	Are They the Hydrogen Atoms of Strong Interaction Physics Kurt Gottfried	1980	2
10	Classical space-time concepts in high-energy collisions Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·F. E. Low, Kurt Gottfried	1978	18
11	Heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation Physics Letters B ·E. Eichten, Kurt Gottfried	1977	162
12	Interplay of Confinement and Decay in the Spectrum of Charmonium Physical Review Letters ·E. Eichten, Kurt Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, Kenneth Lane, T. -M. Yan	1976	160
13	The Spectrum of Charmonium Physical Review Letters ·E. Eichten, John B. Kogut, Kurt Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, Tung‐Mow Yan, Kenneth Lane	1974	375
14	Coherent and incoherent multiple production in nuclei CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Kurt Gottfried, G. Tibell	1974	4
15	An introduction to multiple production processes CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Kurt Gottfried	1973	3
16	Vector Mesons and Nuclear Optics Physical Review ·Kurt Gottfried, D. R. Yennie	1969	71
17	High-Energy Photoproduction ofρ0Mesons from Hydrogen and Deuterium Physical Review Letters ·G. McClellan, N. B. Mistry, F. Stein, H. Ogren, A. Silverman, MARIYA V. SKIBITSKAYA, R. Talman, Kurt Gottfried, A.I. Lebedev	1969	44
18	Sum Rule for High-Energy Electron-Proton Scattering Physical Review Letters ·Kurt Gottfried	1967	271
19	Quantum mechanics - Vol.1: Fundamentals Kurt Gottfried	1966	7
20	SOUND PROPAGATION IN A DILUTE FERMI GAS AT ZERO TEMPERATURE Kurt Gottfried, Necati Demircan	1960	2

About Kurt Gottfried

Kurt Gottfried is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Political Science and International Relations and Spectroscopy, having authored 72 papers that have together received 6.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (15 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (14 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (13 papers), Nuclear physics research studies (11 papers), Nuclear Issues and Defense (7 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (6 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (5 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (5.0k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.4k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (417 citations), Condensed Matter Physics (274 citations) and Radiation (202 citations). Kurt Gottfried has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include E. Eichten, Kenneth Lane, T. Kinoshita, T. -M. Yan, J.D. Jackson, John David Jackson, John B. Kogut, Tung‐Mow Yan, T. Kinoshita and W. Czyż. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature, Physics Today, Annals of Physics and Scientific American.

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