magazine for physics
The Zeitschrift für Physik was a physics journal that was published by Springer Verlag until 1997 under the editorship of the German Physical Society . It appeared for the first time in 1920. A committee consisting of Albert Einstein , Karl Scheel , Wilhelm Westphal , Fritz Haber and others decided to found a new journal in 1919 after the negotiations of the German Physical Society had become too extensive. The first four volumes were published by Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn in Braunschweig by 1921 , edited by Hans Geiger and Karl Scheel, then by Vieweg and Springer and from volume 31 of 1925 only by Springer.
The Zeitschrift der Physik was the leading physics journal in the 1920s, many basic articles from the time of the development of quantum mechanics were published here. From 1975 it split into several individual series:
- A: Hadrons and Nuclei (until 1985 Atoms and Nuclei, from 1986 to 1990 Atomic Nuclei), from 1975 with Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller as editor until 1988.
- B: Condensed Matter (until 1979 Condensed Matter and Quanta), from 1975
- C: Particles and Fields, from 1979. Editor 1979 to 1986 Helmut Satz .
- D: Atoms, Molecules and Clusters, from 1986.
In 1975 it was combined in its newly founded B series with the journal Physics of Condensed Matter .
The editors were Hans Geiger (1921 to 1945), Karl Scheel (1921 to 1936), Max von Laue (1947 to 1955), Robert Wichard Pohl (1947 to 1955), Otto Haxel (1955 to 1974), J. Hans D. Jensen (1955 to 1973), Ewald Fünfer (1967 to 1974), Günther Leibfried (1967 to 1974), Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (1973 to 1974). Haxel was the general editor of the A to D series from 1975 to 1987. In 1998 it merged with the French Journal de Physique and other European physics journals in the newly founded European Physical Journal .