title: Essay: the origin of physical review letters.
abstract: When Sam Goudsmit, then Editor of Physical Review, decided to publish the Letters separately, he asked me to become Assistant Editor of the new journal. I wound up staying at PRL for a quarter of a century. I describe some of the new techniques we developed to speed up review and production so that Letters could be quickly published.
authors.forename: George L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Trigg