A Siamese cat co-authored a physics paper in 1975
Physicist Jack Hetherington invented co-author F. D. C. Willard to avoid retyping a paper that used "we" throughout.
F. D. C. Willard was a Siamese cat named Chester, who lived from 1968 to 1982. In 1975, his owner, the physicist Jack H. Hetherington of Michigan State University, wrote a paper on low-temperature physics and used the word "we" throughout, according to Wik…
