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A Siamese cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975

By: Popkin
11 August 2026 at 14:15
F. D. C. Willard β€” A Siamese cat, photo by Karin Langner-Bahmann / CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

F. D. C. Willard was a Siamese cat named Chester, who lived from 1968 to 1982. In 1975, his owner, the physicist Jack H. Hetherington of Michigan State University, wrote a paper on low-temperature physics and used the word "we" throughout, according to Wikipedia. β€” Read the rest

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