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by analog31 974 days ago
Along with short papers, there are short titles. I. I. Rabi tried to get a paper published in a German journal with a one-word title:

"Molekularstrahlenablenkungsmethode"

The journal turned it down.

https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral...

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Which is weird because it's a perfectly simple and understandable word. Did they want to rephrase it to the more complex "Methode zur Ablenkung molekularer Strahlen"?