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Internet Links
TU Wien & Academic Austria
- ZID (computing center): TUNET status (in case of problems, try finger status@128.130.2.69 in the command line).
Getting around
Science & research institutions
- Science journals: Bild der Wissenschaft, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, Science, and Scientific American.
- Physics Publishers: AIP (US), Cambridge University Press (UK), Elsevier (scirus search), Europhysics Lett., IEEE, IOP (UK), New Journal of Physics, Physical Review (Letters), Springer, World Scientific.
Companies
- Electronics components suppliers: Distrelec, Farnell, RS Components Austria, Rutronik, and Wienschall/rb.
- Manufacturers and suppliers of vacuum gear: Ceramaseal, CIV, Edwards, Eurovac/Scandivac, Granville-Phillips, Hiden, Hositrad, Huntigton, K.J. Lesker, McAllister, MDC, Oerlikon-Leybold, Omicron, Pfeiffer, Physical Electronics (PHI), Pink, RDB, Riber, Schaefer, Specs, tectra, Thermionics, Trinos, VAb, Vacom, Vaqtec, Varian, VAT, and VG-Scienta.
Physics
- Misc. info: Frequently Asked Questions, Tutorials&Reviews, equations (big PDF file), laws etc., Nobel Prizes, and jokes.
- Constants and data: Periodic tables with element data, phase diagrams; atomic, molecular, and plasma data, atomic spectra, electron binding energies and other x-ray data, nuclear data, Chemistry WebBook, fundamental constants (see also NIST data) and SI units. NIST databases, Landolt Börnstein.
- Astronomy in Austria and worldwide links. Astronomy news (also in German) and new results from ESO, HST. Space probes.
Computing
- Info on WWW from the WWW Consortium. Introduction to HTML in German or English, HTML V3.2 or V4.01 reference, Web page test.
- Numerical and scientific software: CERNlib, NETLIB, and NAG; lists of software at NIST (GAMS) and ZIBerlin.
Miscellaneous
- Dictionaries - Translation: German<->English at linguaDict, Leo, TU Chemnitz; multi-language from logos and freetranslation.
- English: yourDictionary, HyperDictionary, Websters English dictionary, Wiktionary Thesauri: Roget's, Worldnet.
- Maps: OpenStreetMap, MapQuest.