The Physics book

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The handbook of physics pursued the goal of presenting the state of the entire experimental and theoretical physics. A first edition, laid out in 24 volumes, was published by Hans Geiger and Karl Scheel and was published by Julius Springer Verlag from 1926 . An almost completely revised edition in 55 volumes was published by Siegfried Flügge from 1955 . It contains very few articles from the old series, e.g. B. Wolfgang Pauli's on quantum theory, which has also been revised.

The Geiger-Scheel Handbook

The idea of ​​presenting the state of experimental and theoretical physics in a manual came about in 1922 with the participation of Max Born , James Franck , Robert Wichard Pohl , Walther Kossel , Erich Regener and Max Volmer . The editors of the partial series were Richard Grammel , Fritz Henning (Berlin), Heinrich Konen , Hans Thirring , Ferdinand Trendelenburg and Wilhelm Westphal .

Volumes 1-3 dealt with history, lecture technique, units, mathematical aids, volume 4 the fundamentals of physics, volumes 5 to 8 mechanics including acoustics, volumes 9 to 11 heat, volumes 12 to 17 electricity and magnetism, volume 18 to 21 Optics of all wavelengths, volumes 22 to 24 Structure of matter and nature of radiation. In the second edition (around 1932), some volumes were greatly expanded and divided into partial volumes.

In the 2nd edition 1933:

The Encyclopedia of Physics / Handbuch der Physik

After the Second World War, an internationalized new edition was published from 1955 to 1988 (register volume ) under the direction of Siegfried Flügge in 55 volumes (from 78 individual volumes). The languages ​​of publication were German, English, French and the titles were German / English. Clifford Truesdell was co-editor of the mechanics volumes . Planning began in 1948 under Hermann Mayer-Kaupp (* 1901), who was at Springer Verlag from 1947 to 1973, a close associate of Ferdinand Springer junior and the first publishing director for physics, chemistry and biology. Kaupp brought in Flügge as a consultant in 1948. Another adviser was Paul Rosbaud , who was an adviser to Springer before the Second World War and who had emigrated to England. He advised the project to be carried out together with an English publishing house and was commissioned by Springer in 1952 to look for co-editors for Flügge in England. The candidates found by Rosbaud, possibly influenced by Rosbaud, demanded full control of the project and transferring it to Pergamon Verlag, which Springer did not accept. The first volumes appeared in 1955, now organized from Springer's headquarters in Heidelberg and with Flügge as sole editor. At the end of the 1960s, Flügge withdrew from the editorial office and left it to Mayer-Kaupp for the last volumes. Possibly this was due to the rapid growth of physics, which blew Flügge's original plan.

Single volumes:

Group 1: Mathematical Methods

Group 2: Principles of Theoretical Physics

Group 3: Mechanical and thermal behavior of matter

Group 4: Electrical and magnetic behavior of matter

Group 5: optics

Group 6: X-rays and corpuscular rays

Group 7: Atomic and Molecular Physics

Group 8: Nuclear Physics

Group 9: Cosmic Rays

Group 10: Geophysics

Group 11: Astrophysics

  • Volume 55: General Register 1988

References and comments

  1. ↑ Karl Mader, 1880–1965, geodesist and astronomer, councilor in the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, from 1946 associate professor for geodesy at the Vienna University of Technology
  2. ^ Geckeler (born October 21, 1897 in Munich; † November 6, 1952 in Kiel), a doctorate in mathematician (Diss. Munich 1921) at Zeiss and then at the company Anschütz in Kiel, where he was deputy director.
  3. ↑ Helmuth Sell (1898–1956), until 1933 head of the laboratory for measurement technology and electronics at Siemens in Berlin, then he went into business for himself because the National Socialist pressure was too strong for him as a social democrat at Siemens. After the war he became Righteous Among the Nations with his wife because he hid Jews from the National Socialists.
  4. ↑ Dr. Rudolf Schmidt, born 1880, member of the senior government at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin, where he was from 1906 to 1937
  5. ↑ Egon Alberti, 1886–1945, physicist and electrical engineer at the patent office in Berlin, author of a book on cathode ray tubes (Springer 1932)
  6. ^ Zeiss company, Jena
  7. ↑ Dr. Walter Rahts, also sometimes wrongly quoted by Raths, director of Agfa, was chairman of the board of the Deutsche Kinotechnische Gesellschaft at the end of the 1930s and still in 1944, editor with Joachim Grassmann of the conference volume Film and Color , Berlin 1943
  8. ^ Heinrich Ley (1872–1938), received his doctorate in Würzburg in 1895, Prof. in Leipzig, from 1911 Prof. for chemistry in Münster
  9. ↑ Wolfsohn was a physicist and assistant to Rudolf Ladenburg at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. In 1933, like other Jews, he lost his job and went to Utrecht
  10. ↑ Heinz Götze, Springer. History of a Scientific Publishing House , Volume 2 (1945-1992), Springer 1994, p. 29
  11. ↑ Walter James "Jim" Carr, 1918–2010, received his doctorate in 1951 under Frederick Seitz , physicist at Westinghouse
  12. ↑ RH Good jr., Born 1923 in Toronto, 1956 to 1970 Prof. at Iowa State University, most recently Prof. Pennsylvania State University
  13. ^ Gerrit Arnoldus Wijnand Rutgers (1914–1972), Prof. in Utrecht
  14. ↑ Robert D. Birkhoff, born 1925, Head of Radiation Physics Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Prof. University of Tennessee
  15. ↑ Gennadi Michailowitsch Nikolski, 1929–1982, studied in Kiev, since 1958 at the Institute for Geomagnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Academy of Sciences, founder and head of the Laboratory for Solar Activity, since 1971 professor