- 2000 Physical Behaviour of Magnetism in Clumps
      First observational relationships between magnetic field strengths and clump sizes 
       (different than Larson's relations for clouds), field strenghs and gas density values, etc.
    *** "I like the idea of different scaling laws on smaller scales. This is
      an important breakthrough." 
      [Dr. Bruce Elmegreen, FCP Editor, 2000 Sept. 05].
      2000 Vallée, J.P.  Ap.J., 538, 226-232.
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 127

 - 1996 Pitfalls in Galactic Magnetic Field research 
      Reversals of Milky Way's Galactic Magnetic Field - identification
       and description of numerous observational pitfalls that led others astray
      1996 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 308, 433-440 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 119   
      1997 Vallée, J.P. Fundamentals of Cosmic Physics, 19,1-89  
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 122 

 - 1996 Bending and bifurcation of Cloud Magnetic Field
      First observational proof of Magnetic Field bifurcation and bending in a large molecular cloud, 
      never predicted by MHD theories
      1996 Vallée, J.P., Bastien, P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 313, 255-268 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 120 

 - 1995 Starformation and Core collisions - the role of escaping cloudlets:
      First direct observational proof of the triggering of star formation
       from the collision of two cloud cores. 
    ***  "For the first time, two
       escaping cloudlets are observed, and best interpreted as a result a 
       cloud collision event by two nearby clouds";"Vallée (1995) has
       collected CONVINCING data for a cloud collision event..."
       [Miniati,F, Ryu,D., Ferrara,A., Jones,T.W. 1999, ApJ, 510, 726-746.]
      1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 110, 2256-2260
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 117 
      1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 109, 1724-1728
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 114 

 - 1994 Link between Starformation rate and the Galactic Magnetic Field : 
      First direct observational proof of a link between star formation rate
       or efficiency and galactic Magnetic Field strength - found to be
       at a much weaker level than predicted by all theories
      1994 Vallée, J.P. Astrophysical Journal, 433, 778-779 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 106  

 - 1993 VALLEE'S LAW - linking a supershell's magnetic field and gas: 
      First observational link shown to exist giving a scaling relation
      between the magnetic field B in a supershell around an interstellar 
      superbubble and the gas density in the supershell, of the form B 
      proportional to gas density n elevated to the power k=1.0 
   ***  The scaling relation between a supershell magnetic field strength B
      and its thermal gas density n, of the form B ~ n, is now called in the 
      scientific literature as "VALLEE'S LAW" 
      [Kamaya 1998, ApJ,493,L95-L99].  
      1993 Vallée, J.P. Astrophys. J., 419, 670-673.
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 102 
      1997 Vallée, J.P. Fundam. Cosmic Physics, 19, 1-89.
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 122

 - 1993 Link between Galactic dynamo and galactic dynamic
      First observational proof of a direct link between galactic dynamo and
       galactic dynamics - creation of a morphological deformation parameter,
       and its use to correlate with the galactic Magnetic Field shape (axi or
       bi symmetric)
      1993 Vallée, J.P. Astrophys. & Space Science, 206, 275-284 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 101 
      1994 Vallée, J.P. Journal Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada, 88, 201-212 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 105 
      1995 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 301, 11-17 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 115  

 - 1990 Link between large scale gas and large scale Magnetic Field
      First observational detection of direct relation between thermal gas
       density and Magnetic Field strength B, for large scales > 100 pc,
      of the form B proportional to gas density to the power 0.2 
      1990 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophysics, 239, 57-62 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 91  
      1995 Vallée, J.P. Astrophysics & Space Science, 234, 1-10 
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 118 

 - 1990 First observational detection of a large-scale magnetic field 
        in the Local Supercluster, in the form of
       an excess rotation measure in the Virgo supercluster of galaxies
      1990 Vallée, J.P. Astron. J., 99, 459-462
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 85

 - 1989 First measures of magnetic field strength using carbon radio
       recombination lines in molecular cloud edges
   *** "The ONLY attempt to compute the magnetic field
  using Carbon recombination lines was made by Vallée (1989)."
      [Roshi, D.A. 2007, ApJ, 658, L41-L44]  
      1989, Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 224, 191-198.
           - see List of Ref. papers, no. 79

 - 1988 Magnetic Field in Scutum spiral arm
      First direct observation of Magnetic Field in Scutum spiral arm of 
       our Galaxy
      1988 Vallée,J.P.,Simard-Normandin,M.,Bignell,R. Astrophys.J.,331,321-324
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 70  

 - 1988 Giant 1 Megaparsec Head-Tail Radio Galaxy IC711
      First detection of a radio trail from a head-tail galaxy in a cluster
       exceeding 1 Mpc in extent from the optical galactic nucleus
      1988 Vallée,J.P.,Strom,R.G. Astron.J., 95, 1360-1362
           - see List pf Ref. Papers, no. 76

 - 1986 Magnetic Field inside a cluster of galaxies but outside galaxies
      First direct observation of a Magnetic Field in the intracluster gas 
       inside a cluster of galaxies
   *** "The FIRST successful demonstration of Faraday rotation of the polarized emission 
      from background radio sources seen through a cluster atmosphere was presented by 
      Vallee et al. (1986) for A2319. Vallee et al (1987) combined the RM excess in A2319 with 
      the density estimates from X-ray observations by Jones et al.(1979) to estimate a field 
      strength of 2 microGauss..." 
      [C.Carilli & G.Taylor, 2002, Annual Rev. Ast&Ast, vol.40, p.329] 
      1986 Vallée, J.P.,MacLeod,J.M.,Broten,N.W. Astron.&Astrophys.,156,386-390
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 53 
      1987 Vallée,J.P.,Macleod,J.M.,Broten,N.W. Astrophys.Lett&Comm.,25,181-186
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 56 
  
 - 1983 Magnetic Field in Perseus spiral arm
      First direct observation of Magnetic Field in Perseus spiral arm of
       our Galaxy
      1983 Vallée, J.P. Astron. & Astrophys., 124, 147-150
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 35 

 - 1979 CHOICE OF "PAPILLON" NAME 
      Choice of name ("Papillon") made by VallTeeacute;e for the distant galaxy IC708,
       on account of its radio appearance. [Often called since in the 
       scientific literature as PAPILLON; Listed in "Nomenclature Dictionary" 
       (p. 6.7) of Fernandez et al. 1983, Astron. & Astrophys. Suppl, 52, 1.]
      1979 Vallée,J.P.,Wilson,A.S.,van der Laan,H.Astron.&Astrophys.,77,183-188
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 20  

 - 1976 Largest Head-Tail Galaxy so far
      Observational discovery of the largest Head-tail radio galaxy (IC711)
      1976 Vallée,J.P., Wilson,A.S. Nature, 259, 451-454
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 10
      1987 Vallée,J.P., Roger,R.S. Astron. J., 94, 1-6
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 57

 - 1973 Magnetic Field in local superbubble
      Observational discovery of the Magnetic Field in the NPS superbubble
       in the Orion spur
      1973 Vallée,J.P., Kronberg,P.P. Nature Physical Science, 246, 49-51
           - see List of Ref. Papers, no. 4