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4 unusual facts about Physics Today


Future Shock Comics

In July 2010, a Future Shock cartoon appeared in the science magazine Physics Today.

Physics Today

The magazine provides a historical resource of events associated with physics, including debunking the physics behind the so-called Star Wars program of the 1980s, and the state of physics in China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1970s.

The physics community's main vessel for new results are the Physical Review suite of scientific journals published by the American Physical Society and Applied Physics Letters published by the American Institute of Physics.

It is provided to the members of twelve physics societies, including the American Physical Society.


Lois H. Gresh

They have been reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Science News, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, and US News and World Report, as well as by National Public Radio, the BBC, Fox News, the History Channel, and other television and radio programs.


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Luca Gammaitoni

A. R. Bulsara, and L. Gammaitoni, "Tuning in to noise," Physics Today 49(3): 39-45, 1996.

Oskar Ritter

The Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, today, the Max-Planck Institut für Physik) had partly evacuated to Hechingen and Haigerloch in southern Germany.