In 1982, four scientists from three continents collaborated on a paper published in Science magazine that estimated that flatulence from termites might be responsible for as much as 30percentt of the methane in the earth's atmosphere.
In 1974 Vinton Cerf, then at Stanford University in California, and this author, then at DARPA, collaborated on a paper that first described such a protocol and system architecture namely, the transmission control protocol (TCP), which enabled different types of machines on networks all over the world to route and assemble data packets.
In other words, adapting the term from the network literature [29], we can say that we find evidence of a very strong simplicial closure: in the great majority of cases whenever three authors have collaborated in pairs, they also have collaborated on a paper together.
In 1821 William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, both members of the Geological Society of London, collaborated on a paper that analysed in detail the specimens found by Anning and others.
The two are now collaborating on a scientific paper about the flora of the Borrego desert.
Nirenberg knew Chern personally; the two even collaborated on a joint paper in 1969.
Recently, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, the European Diabetes Working Party for Older People, and the International Task Force of Experts in Diabetes collaborated on a position paper on the effective management of older patients with diabetes (55).
Per Wikipedia: "He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open", staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later.
They are now collaborating on a book.
Collaborating on a memoir is a strange thing.
