This is not the page for acknowledging whomever I need to, nor for disacknowledging whomever I want to. This is a very slowly growing list of my favorite acknowledgments appeared in publications in my field in the inverse chronological order. If you find an outstanding acknowledgment, or write one, please give me a notice.
Physica A, 496, 137 (2018)
From my colleague Kiwamu Izumi.
Rui Long wants to thank, in particular, the patience, care and support from Panpan Mao over the passed years. Will you marry me?
-- Good luck! Cited in
nature critically.
ApJ, 813, 17 (2015)
This paper is dedicated to the memory of my father, Jonas Stasys Zmuidzinas, who first introduced me to coherent-state integrals.
-- An amazing depth of thought is reached by two generations of a family!
A&A Review, 20, 49 (2012)
I want to express my dissappointment that Utrecht University decided to close its astronomy department, which had a long and fruitful tradition of 370 yr.
-- Too bad.
Nature, 448, 172 (2007)
... we acknowledge that the summit of Mauna Kea, from which we had the privilege of conducting these observations, is revered within the indigenous Hawaiian community.
Astro-ph/0706.3191 (2007)
From my colleague Konstantin Getman.
We are grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research for having discontinued the financial support of our experimental studies of gamma-ray bursts with the first Russian MASTER robotic telescope and thereby giving us time to write this paper.
ApJ, 463, 957 (2007)
The work was supported by the President of the Russian Federation...
-- Well, I doubt Vladimir Putin ever read this paper.
MNRAS, 368, 1706 (2006)
Also appeared in "Astrophysics in 2006" by Trimble, Aschwanden, & Hansen (2007) with a wrong reference number.
EB thanks the Israeli Army for hospitality during the last month of this project.
-- I hope it is not a typo of "hostility". Get your work done before being drafted.
ApJ, 571, L169 (2002)
We deeply thank our unknown referee, whose report was nearly as long as this Letter...
-- Write another Letter instead.
ApJ, 381, L25 (1991)
Here we acknowledge Jon-David Bartoe and Ken Nordsieck, who played key roles in reorganizing the Astro I mission to allow commanding from the ground when hardware failure made it impossible for the astronauts to control the instruments.
-- The astronauts sound a bit helpless. In the text of the paper,
There were some ~10% fluctuations occurred in the count rate of Z Cam. Most of these fluctuations occurred either near the beginning of the observation when the pointing was being adjusted or during the last 400 s of the observation when astronauts were exercising on a treadmill.
ApJ, 268, 368 (1983)
I acknowledge gratefully the support of my wife, who gave me an Apple-II-plus computer on which the above work was done.
-- I also thank your wife. This paper was very useful in my work.
IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory, CT-3(4), 266 (1956).
The author wishes to thank Prof. W. I. Linvill for his assistance in this research. During the past several years, he has served as a combination of supervisor and father confessor.