Penn State Track And Field Athletes Are So Spread Out This Week I Don't Know How To Keep Up!

So I'm packing it in on a real post and will bring you a Physics post instead.

Spire Invitational (at B1G site)

Iowa State Classic

Huskey Invitational

In 1975, a forward thinking Big Ten Physicist, Jack Hetherington included his 7 year-old cat on his paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Two, Three, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc(3)He

"As a colleague pointed out while editing the draft, Hetherington listed himself as the study's sole author, yet he had nevertheless written the entire paper using the "we" pronoun. This was against the journal's style rules, the colleague noted. Hetherington's paper would surely be rejected if it wasn't retyped."

 "Therefore, after an evening's thought, I simply asked the secretary to change the title page to include the name of the family cat."  

 He settled on F.D.C. Willard — F.D.C. being an acronym for Felis Domesticus Chester, and Willard being the name of Chester's tomcat father.

The ruse has even been repeated since by a 2010 Nobel Laureate, who included his pet hampster on a paper on gyroscopes.