Physical Review is one of the oldest and most-respected scientific journals publishing research on all aspects of physics. It is published by the American Physical Society (APS). Nature. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the worlds largest organization of physicists. ...

History

Physical Review commenced publication in July 1893, organized by Cornell University professor Edward Nichols and helped by the new President of Cornell, J. Gould Schurman. The journal was managed and edited at Cornell in upstate New York from 1983 to 1913 by Nichols, Ernest Merritt, and Frederick Bedell. The American Physical Society, formed in 1899, took over its publication in 1913. The journal remained at Cornell under Editor G.S. Fulcher from 1923 to 1926, before relocating to the location of Editor John Torrence Tate at the University of Minnesota. In 1929, the APS started publishing the Reviews of Modern Physics, a venue for longer review articles. After Tate's death in 1950, the journals were managed on an interim basis still in Minnesota by E.L. Hill and John Buchta until Samuel Goudsmit and Simon Pasternak were appointed and the editorial office moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on the east end of Long Island, NY. In July 1958, the sister journal Physical Review Letters was introduced to publish short articles of particularly broad interest, initially edited by George L. Trigg, who remained as Editor until 1988. In 1970, Physical Review split into sub-journals Physical Review A, B, C, and D. A fifth member of the family, Physical Review E, was introduced in 1993 to a large part to accommodate the huge amount of new research in nonlinear dynamics. The editorial office moved in 1980 to its present location on 1 Research Road, Ridge, NY, just across the street from BNL. Sam Goudsmit retired in 1974 and Sy Pasternak in the mid-70's. B. Chalmers-Frazer was Managing Editor from 1974 until 1980, helped by Robert K. Adair and James Krumhansl. Past Editors-in-Chief include David Lazarus (1980--1990), from University of Illinois at Urbana, and Benjamin Bederson (1990--1996), from New York University, and Martin Blume (1996 onwards), from BNL. In 1998, the first issue of Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams was published, and in 2005, Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research was launched. Physical Review also started an online magazine, Physical Review Focus, in 1998 to explain, and provide historical context for, selected articles from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters. The Special Topics journals are open-access and funded by page charges to the authors. All of the journals of the APS are recognized internationally as among the best and well known in physics. Many of the most famous physics papers published in the 20th century have appeared in the pages of the Physical Review family of journals. 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Cornell University is a research university based in Ithaca, New York. ... The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the worlds largest organization of physicists. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... University of Minnesota, Twin Cities This article is about the oldest and largest campus of the University of Minnesota. ... Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck. ... Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Physical Review Letters is one of the most prestigious journals in physics. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Chaos theory, in mathematics and physics, deals with the behaviour of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos, most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly effect). ... Learning & Labor The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the largest campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Bobcat New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Physical Review Focus is an internet service of the American Physical Society, aiming to explain new developments in physics in a language understandable to the educated non-physicist. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Journal scope

• Physical Review A: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics.
• Physical Review B: Condensed matter and materials physics.
• Physical Review C: Nuclear physics.
• Physical Review D: Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology.
• Physical Review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics.
• Physical Review Letters: Important fundamental research in all fields of physics.
• Physical Review Special Topics -Accelerators and Beams
• Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
• Physical Review Focus: Selections from the Physical Review Journals

Atomic, molecular, and optical physics is the study of matter-matter and light-matter interactions on the scale of single atoms or structures containing a few atoms. ... Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter. ... Materials physics is a field of physics concerned with the physical properties of materials. ... Nuclear physics is the branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom. ... Particles erupt from the collision point of two relativistic (100GeV) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. ... Quantum field theory (QFT) is the application of quantum mechanics to fields. ... Gravitation is the tendency of massive objects to accelerate towards each other. ... Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) world + λογια (logia) discourse) is the study of the universe in its totality and by extension mans place in it. ... Statistical physics, one of the fundamental theories of physics, uses methods of statistics in solving physical problems. ... Chaos theory, in mathematics and physics, deals with the behaviour of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that (under certain conditions) exhibit the phenomenon known as chaos, most famously characterised by sensitivity to initial conditions (see butterfly effect). ... The concept of “soft matter” subsumes a large class of molecular materials, including e. ... Physical Review Focus is an internet service of the American Physical Society, aiming to explain new developments in physics in a language understandable to the educated non-physicist. ...

External links

• Online archive of all back issues of Phys. Rev. (subscription required)
• Official website Physical Review A
• Official website Physical Review B
• Official website Physical Review C
• Official website Physical Review D
• Official website Physical Review E
• Official website Physical Review Letters
• American Physical Society
• Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
• Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
• Physical Review Focus