August 19, 2004
Interesting names
Today we had a visitor at work from England. His name is Alex A. Alex. Wonder what his middle initial stands for. Should have asked him. Have met a professor from Princeton University whose name is Warren Warren. This is like Major Major Major from Catch-22.
Reminds me of an article that had an interesting list of authors...
A. Bax, D. Max and D. Zax: Measurement of multiple-bond 13C-13C J couplings in a 20-kDa protein-peptide complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114, 6923-6925 (1992).
I know the first author Ad Bax, who is very proud of this paper and refers to it as Bax, Max and Zax in JACS.
By the way, Ad Bax is the most cited currently active author in the world. His publications are referred in more than 20,000 articles when I last checked the Citation Index about 3 years ago.
Posted by Parag at August 19, 2004 10:10 PM | TrackBack
Whoahhh! I read the journal name as JACS as its always done...and was going to comment the same as you stated...Bax, Max and Zax in Jacs :) I bet the authors must be having a special attachment towards this paper.
Posted by: deven at August 20, 2004 12:56 PMThis reminded me of an amusing episode I had read before:
George Gamow, in collaboration with Ralph Alpher, published a paper in 1948, which suggested that the universe had started with a hot big bang replete with 5K radiation. He persuaded Hans Bethe to become a co-author of their paper so that he could dub it as the alpha-beta-gamma (gamow?) paper. Bethe accepted Gamow’s offer. The paper is now called the alpha-beta-gamma paper.
Posted by: vinayak at August 20, 2004 03:25 PMA little like some Indian names which are also surnames? A few likely names :-)
Manohar Manohar
Prabhakar Prabhakar
I met this guy named Park Bench once...It was very strange to see it on his dirver's licence.
Posted by: varykino ashwar at September 3, 2004 12:46 PM
