Pith Number

pith:MQIYRKQ2

pith:2011:MQIYRKQ2W67QIOV73LSXSEWCXU

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Vision to reality: From Robert R. Wilson's frontier to Leon M. Lederman's Fermilab

Adrienne W. Kolb (Fermilab), Lillian H. Hoddeson (Illinois U., Urbana)

arxiv:1110.0486 v1 · 2011-10-03 · physics.hist-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MQIYRKQ2W67QIOV73LSXSEWCXU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:11:40.402660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

641188aa1ab7bf043abfdae57912c2bd2f48bbc50299a3d8e6e671e3d57b7cec

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.0486 · arxiv_version: 1110.0486v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.0486 · pith_short_12: MQIYRKQ2W67Q · pith_short_16: MQIYRKQ2W67QIOV7 · pith_short_8: MQIYRKQ2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MQIYRKQ2W67QIOV73LSXSEWCXU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 641188aa1ab7bf043abfdae57912c2bd2f48bbc50299a3d8e6e671e3d57b7cec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09c396ad7f685c0a7249e9883d755d3f78f3dd86733a9b591d2c9719db09a4dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-03T20:26:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "835561fac617be5860c877ff053e1275d8c16350db9584ca081e5d8257eadd50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.0486",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}