In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper
It wouldn't fly now, but back in 1975, it was a whole different story because a cat named F.D.C. Willard was the co-author of a peer-reviewed physics paper called "Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He."
Published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the paper describes the results of an experiment exploring the behavior of the helium-3 isotope at various temperatures.
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In 1975, a physicist made his cat the co-author of his scientific paper to avoid replacing "we" with "I" throughout his paper.
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