Morton Hamermesh

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Morton Hamermesh is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Morton Hamermesh has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 3 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 3 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Morton Hamermesh's work include Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (2 papers), Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (2 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (2 papers). Morton Hamermesh is often cited by papers focused on Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (2 papers), Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (2 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (2 papers). Morton Hamermesh collaborates with scholars based in United States. Morton Hamermesh's co-authors include Albert A. Mullin, Robert T. Beyer, W. H. Furry, F. J. Lynch, Robert E. Holland, Mark Fred, F. S. Tomkins, F. Coester, G. R. Ringo and A. Wattenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Today and Annals of Physics.

In The Last Decade

Morton Hamermesh

19 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Group Theory and its Applications to Physical Problems

1962 1.2k citations Morton Hamermesh, Albert A. Mullin American Journal of Physics profile →
Soviet Physics—JETP

1960 509 citations W. H. Furry, Morton Hamermesh et al. Physics Today profile →

Peers

Morton Hamermesh

AMPO

NHEP

CMP

SNP

SPECT

Louis Michel France

W. H. Furry United States

L. Pincherle United Kingdom

T. A. Welton United States

L. L. Foldy United States

B. W. Downs United States

Wesley E. Brittin United States

Noel Corngold United States

Siegfried Flügge Germany

Claude Bloch France

Louis Michel France

Morton Hamermesh

1.0k ×0.9

AMPO

1.0k ×2.3

NHEP

348 ×0.8

CMP

410 ×1.1

SNP

180 ×0.7

SPECT

Citations per year, relative to Morton Hamermesh Morton Hamermesh (= 1×) peers Louis Michel

Countries citing papers authored by Morton Hamermesh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Morton Hamermesh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Morton Hamermesh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Morton Hamermesh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Morton Hamermesh based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Morton Hamermesh. Morton Hamermesh is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

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Hamermesh, Morton. (1989). Group Theory and Its Application to Physical Problems. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 30 indexed citations

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Bayman, B. F. & Morton Hamermesh. (1986). A review of undergraduate physics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton. (1983). Physics as Natural Philosophy—Essays in Honor of Laszlo Tisza. American Journal of Physics. 51(9). 863–864. 4 indexed citations

4.

Bruneaux, M., et al.. (1971). Electrons de Conduction et Surface de Fermi des Métaux. Physics Today. 24(1). 77–77. 3 indexed citations

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Eisenberg, J.M., Walter Greiner, & Morton Hamermesh. (1971). Excitation Mechanisms of the Nucleus, Nuclear Theory Series, Vol. 2. Physics Today. 24(9). 51–54. 1 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton. (1970). Mark Zemansky Retires Again. The Physics Teacher. 8(6). 294–294. 1 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton. (1967). Relativistic Theory of Reactions. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 28(2). 313–313. 28 indexed citations

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Coester, F., et al.. (1964). Internal Symmetry and Lorentz Invariance. Physical Review. 135(2B). B451–B452. 24 indexed citations

9.

Hamermesh, Morton & Albert A. Mullin. (1962). Group Theory and its Applications to Physical Problems. American Journal of Physics. 30(10). 774–775. 1214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hamermesh, Morton, et al.. (1961). Effect of radiofrequency resonance on the natural line form. Il Nuovo Cimento. 19(3). 546–557. 52 indexed citations

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Furry, W. H., et al.. (1960). Soviet Physics—JETP. Physics Today. 13(6). 32–34. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Perlow, G. J., S. S. Hanna, Morton Hamermesh, et al.. (1960). Polarization of Nuclear Resonance Radiation in FerromagneticFe57. Physical Review Letters. 4(2). 74–75. 28 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton. (1960). Galilean invariance and the Schrödinger equation. Annals of Physics. 9(4). 518–521. 51 indexed citations

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Lynch, F. J., Robert E. Holland, & Morton Hamermesh. (1960). Time Dependence of Resonantly Filtered Gamma Rays fromFe57. Physical Review. 120(2). 513–520. 228 indexed citations

15.

Hamermesh, Morton, et al.. (1957). Calculation of scattering from a complex square well by a variational method. Annals of Physics. 2(2). 157–165. 2 indexed citations

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Coester, F., Morton Hamermesh, & Katsumi Tanaka. (1954). Limiting Processes in the Formal Theory of Scattering. Physical Review. 96(4). 1142–1143. 6 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton & J. E. Monahan. (1954). Nonsingle Scattering of Electrons at Oblique Incidence. Physical Review. 93(5). 963–965. 2 indexed citations

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Hamermesh, Morton, G. R. Ringo, & A. Wattenberg. (1952). A Measurement of the Electron-Neutron Interaction. Physical Review. 85(3). 483–483. 21 indexed citations

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Fred, Mark, et al.. (1951). The Spectrum ofHe3I. Physical Review. 82(3). 406–421. 62 indexed citations

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