A Personal Look Back at Physics Today
MAY 01, 1998
DOI: 10.1063/1.882227
The idea of a magazine for physicists probably dates back to the 1930s, to early debates on the Reviews of Modern Physics, to the creation of a short‐lived American Physical Society (APS) journal called Physics and later to a short‐lived section within Review of Scientific Instruments, By 1944 the American Institute of Physics (AJP) had begun to seriously consider a magazine for physicists. Proposals ranged from a mimeographed newsletter to a slick magazine.
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