People talk about how the internet and Wikipedia have made the collection and categorization of information more democratic, but the point is really driven home when one of your blog posts gets used as a reference by the Hungarian version of Wikipedia.
I don’t know what the Hungarian text says, but there must surely be a more authoratative source than my blog regarding how George de Hevesy hid the Nobel Prize medals of James Franck and Max von Laue by dissolving them in aqua regia.
This page on the Nobel Prize website discusses the events in question.
On the talk page, I suggested they reference the Nobel page instead of me.
I wonder how many undergraduate essays this page has been cited in.
How did you find this out?
I spotted incoming visitors in my server logs.