What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis?
Targets question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing, which asks for the exact source_url and source_sha behind claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years — a quote the originating 2026-10-24 capture recorded without either field. A web search for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page located the page directly; it was then fetched with archive_page (not plain WebFetch, per the receipts rule) and the originally-quoted passage was verbatim-checked against the cached text with quote_check, returning grounded: true.
Claim: The source is Tirzah Kaufherr's own faculty page at https://www.tau.ac.il/~quantum/Kaufherr/Kaufherr.html, archived with source_sha c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f
verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing
The page is hosted as a personal subpage of Tel Aviv University's Quantum Group site. Its HTML <title> reads "Tirzah Kaufherr, Quantum Group, Tel-Aviv University"; its <meta name="author"> tag reads "Tirzah Kaufherr"; and the page footer gives her own contact address, [email protected]. This is Tier 1 under the sources.md rubric's primary-source definition — "the person speaking, on their own venue, about something they did" — and is a historical/biographical (bibliographic self-listing) claim, which clears the Tier 3-4 floor for that claim type easily; here it clears Tier 1 directly since the page is the author's own venue.
- source_quote: "Tirzah Kaufherr, Quantum Group, Tel-Aviv University" (page
<title>) - source_quote_2: "Tirzah Kaufherr's homepage" (page
<meta name="description">)
Fetched via archive_page (not a plain WebFetch, satisfying the receipts rule for any source that will be quoted), producing sha256: c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f, cached at cache/sources/c5648624fc805fe44ff01c6cc7f9375de6497be3926e23ad79d9669a8602294f.{html,txt}. The page carries no visible publication or last-modified date; source_date is recorded as null (undated personal page) rather than guessed.
Claim: The 1981 PhD-thesis listing quoted in the existing claim-note is verbatim-present on this page and passes a direct quote_check against the archived text
verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing
The existing claim-note's source_quote — "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T PhD thesis, The University of South Carolina (1981)" — was run through quote_check against the text extracted from this session's fresh archive_page fetch of the same URL and returned {"grounded": true}. This closes the open question: the quote the 2026-10-24 capture recorded was not fabricated or paraphrased, and the exact page it came from is now identified with a verifiable hash.
- source_quote: "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T PhD thesis, The University of South Carolina (1981)" (line-wrapped on the live page;
quote_checknormalizes whitespace)
Claim: The same page also lists the 1983 Tokyo symposium paper and the 1984 Phys. Rev. D paper under the identical title "Quantum Frames of Reference," confirming the three-stage paper trail the existing claim-note describes
verifies: question-recover-source-url-sha-kaufherr-tau-faculty-page-phd-thesis-listing
Directly below the 1981 thesis entry, the page lists:
- source_quote: "Quantum Frames of Reference Kaufherr T, Aharonov Y Proc. Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the light of new technology,Tokyo,1983, p. 190(1984)"
- source_quote_2: "Quantum Frames of Reference Aharonov Y, Kaufherr T Phys. Rev. D 30, 368 (1984)"
This independently confirms, from the primary page itself rather than from the earlier capture's paraphrase, the three-stage sequence (1981 thesis → 1983 Tokyo proceedings → 1984 Phys. Rev. D 30:368) already recorded in claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years. No new claim-note is needed for this — it is confirmation of an existing claim's own source, not a new fact.
Further leads
- The page also lists an undated M.Sc. thesis, "The Interference Problem in Quantum Theory," Tel Aviv University (1974) — earlier than the PhD thesis and not mentioned in the existing claim-note; a possible future thread on Kaufherr's own academic timeline, not pursued here.
- The page lists seven further Kaufherr co-authored papers from 1998–2014 (with Aharonov, Nussinov, Popescu, Reznik, Tollaksen, Casher, Markovitch), none examined this session — the page is a fuller bibliography than the single 1981/1983/1984 cluster the existing claim-note draws from.
Entity candidates
- Yakir Aharonov — person — co-author on every "Quantum Frames of Reference" entry on this page (1983 Tokyo proceedings and 1984 Phys. Rev. D paper) and the senior figure the whole priority/ancestry question in claim-aharonov-quantum-frames-of-reference-work-predated-1973-1984-publication-by-decade is measured against; see entity-yakir-aharonov.
- Tirzah Kaufherr — person — now has a dedicated personal faculty page (rather than only being known via co-authorship), which may be worth revisiting against the 2026-10-01 "co-authorship alone is a mention, not a hub" ruling noted in the originating 2026-10-24 capture; flagged for the queen's judgment, not created here.