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This web site informs about the history of the journal Annalen der Physik, i.e. the oldest German academic journal for physics, founded in 1790 by Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren. The site is privatly run and does not serve the operation of the current journal. You can reach the official journal page of the Wiley-VCH publisher following this link (www.Ann-Phys.org). Only at the publishers site you can download new articles and submit manuscripts.

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Translations

Carl-Heinz Krutzsch,
On an experimentally observed phenomenon on vortex rings during their translational movement in a real liquid
Ann.Phys.(Berlin), 523, EarlyView (2011)
DOI 10.1002/andp.201000139 [article]
is now available as translation of the original work from 1939.

Original:
Über eine experimentell beobachtete Erscheinung an Wirbelringen bei ihrer translatorischen Bewegung in wirklichen Flüssigkeiten by Carl-Heinz Krutzsch
Ann.Phys.(Berlin) 427(6), 497-523 (1939)
DOI: 10.1002/andp.19394270604 [article]

Read the comment by the translators:
Diogo Bolster, Robert Hershberger, and Russell J. Donnelly
An appreciation of the 1939 paper
Ann.Phys.(Berlin), 523, EarlyView (2011)
DOI 10.1002/andp.201100008 [article]

(Picture credit: Portrait C.-H. Krutzsch (1977), Sabine Thiele nee Krutzsch)

More translations can be found [here]

Historical special issues

100 years theory of relativity - the Einstein year 2005:

Einstein & the Annalen der Physik [link]

Year 2008: Celebrating the 150. birthday

Planck & the Annalen der Physik [link]