''Physik Journal'' is the official journal of the

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft The German Physical Society (German: , DPG) is the oldest organisation of physicists. The DPG's worldwide membership is cited as 60,547, as of 2019, making it the largest physics society in the world. It holds an annual conference () and multiple ...

. Before 2002 it was named ''Physikalische Blätter''.

History

The ''Physikalische Blätter'' was founded in 1943 by

Ernst Brüche Ernst Carl Reinhold Brüche (28 March 1900 in Hamburg – 8 February 1985 in Mosbach) was a German physicist. From 1944 to 1972, he was the editor of the '' Physikalische Blätter'', a publication of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. E ...

, who was also the editor from 1944 to 1972. At the start, it was issued by the Informationsstelle Deutscher Physiker. Starting in 1946, it became an official publication of the

(DPG) and was then published under the name ''Neue Physikalische Blätter''. In 1948, the publication reverted to the name ''Physikalische Blätter''. The last issue of ''Physikalische Blätter'' was published in December 2001, at which time it was replaced by ''Physik Journal''. Members of the DPG an
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have on-line access through the Internet porta
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to issues of ''Physikalische Blätter'' and ''Physik Journal'' back to January 1999. From a circular enclosed with the March 1946 issue of the ''Physikalische Blätter'', the editor,

, envisioned the publication as “an undemanding journal to reestablish contacts within physics and to discuss issues of the day.” In the wake of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the journal became an important medium for discussion of science policy.

Publishers

Publishers of ''Physikalische Blätter'' have included:Hentschel, 2007, Appendix E; see the entry for the Physikalische Blätter. *Verlag Vieweg,

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

(1943–1945) *Verlag Mittelbach, Stuttgart (1946) *Verlag Volk und Zeit,

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

(1947–1948) *Physik Verlag, Mosbach/

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden i ...

(1949–1970) *Physik Verlag, Weinheim (1971–1980) *Physik-Verlag, Weinheim (1982–1985) *VCH-Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim (1991–1996) *Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim (1997–2001)

Bibliography

*Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator ''Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources'' (Birkhäuser, 1996) *Hentschel, Klaus ''The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists 1945 – 1949'' (Oxford, 2007) (In doing research for this book, Hentschel took extensive material from two sources: (1) ''Physikalische Blätter'' and (2) the diary of

held with Brüche’s papers in the Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

External links

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Physikalische Blatter Physics journals Defunct journals German-language journals Publications established in 1943 Publications disestablished in 2001 Popular science magazines