Physics Today

Physics Today magazine, created in 1948, is the membership journal of The American Institute of Physics. It is provided to 130,000 members of twelve physics societies, most importantly including the American Physical Society. Famous physicists of the last 50 years have written for the magazine, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Richard Feynman. Even though its content is scientifically rigorous and up to date, it is not a true scholary journal in the sense of being a primary vehicle for communicating new results. Rather, it informs about important developments in the form of overview articles written by experts and also discusses science politics and, of course, interna of its physics societies. The physics community's main vessel for new results and in-depth review articles is the Physical Review suite of scientific journals published by the American Physical Society and Applied Physics Letters published by the American Institute of Physics. The magazine provides a... full article at wikipedia