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About Physics Today The 12.4k papers published in Physics Today in the last decades have received a total of 752.7k indexed citations . Papers published in Physics Today usually cover Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.4k papers), History and Philosophy of Science (389 papers), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (702 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.6k papers) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (601 papers) specifically the topics of Quantum Mechanics and Applications (413 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (304 papers), International Science and Diplomacy (275 papers), Relativity and Gravitational Theory (270 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (260 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (260 papers), Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (221 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (209 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Physics Today are Richard Schlegel , Thomas Kühn , Joseph Gillis , Pierre Gilles de Gennes , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Theodor Teichmann , Thomas A. Witten , Robert E. Street , Mark A. Ratner and George H. Weiss .
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