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4 unusual facts about Ernst Brüche


Ernst Brüche

From 1944 to 1972, Brüche was the founding editor of the Physikalische Blätter.

Physikalische Blätter

The Physikalische Blätter was founded in 1943 by Ernst Brüche, who was also the editor from 1944 to 1972.

Hentschel, Klaus The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists 1945 – 1949 (Oxford, 2007) ISBN 978-0-19-920566-0 (In doing research for this book, Hentschel took extensive material from two sources: (1) Physikalische Blätter and (2) the diary of Ernst Brüche held with Brüche’s papers in the Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim, Germany.

From a circular enclosed with the March 1946 issue of the Physikalische Blätter, the editor, Ernst Brüche, 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, the journal became an important medium for discussion of science policy.



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