Dr Arnold Berliner (1862-1942), physicist and founding editor of Naturwissenschaften

摘要

Only a few years ago, we knew relatively little about the founding editor of Naturwissenschaften (NAWI), Dr Arnold Berliner, who led and developed the journal over the exceptionally long period of 22 years. It seemed that most information about his acting as editor of NAWI had been lost, most likely in the chaos of WWII and thereafter. Until about a year ago, we did not even know what Berliner looked like, with the only potential image of him being a painting by Eugen Spiro (Thatje 2012).