''Physics Physique Физика'', also known as various punctuations of ''Physics, Physique, Fizika'', and as ''Physics'' for short, was a

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published from 1964 through 1968. Founded by

Philip Warren Anderson Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson made contributions to the theories of Anderson localization, localization, antiferromagnetism, symmetry breaking ( ...

and Bernd T. Matthias, who were inspired by wide-circulation literary magazines like ''Harper's'', the journal's original goal was to print papers of interest to scientists in all branches of physics. It is best known for publishing

John Stewart Bell John Stewart Bell (28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum mechanics, quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theory, hidden-variable theor ...

's paper on the result now known as

Bell's theorem Bell's theorem is a term encompassing a number of closely related results in physics, all of which determine that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden-variable theories, given some basic assumptions about the nature of measuremen ...

. Failing to attract sufficient interest as an unspecialized journal, ''Physics Physique Физика'' soon focused on

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before folding altogether in 1968. The four volumes of this journal were eventually made freely available online by the

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. Bell chose to publish his theorem in this journal because it did not require page charges, and at the time it in fact paid the authors who published there. Because the journal did not provide free reprints of articles for the authors to distribute, however, Bell had to spend the money he received to buy copies that he could send to other physicists. While the articles printed in the journal themselves listed the publication's name simply as ''Physics'', the covers carried the trilingual version ''Physics Physique Физика'' to reflect that it would print articles in English, French and Russian. In 1967, the unusual title caught the attention of

John Clauser John Francis Clauser (; born December 1, 1942) is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt inequality. Clauser was aw ...

, who then discovered Bell's paper and began to consider how to perform a Bell test experiment in the laboratory. Clauser and

Stuart Freedman Stuart Jay Freedman (January 13, 1944 – November 10, 2012) was an American physicist, known for his experiment testing Bell's inequality proposed to him by John Clauser at the University of California, Berkeley as well as for his contributions ...

would go on to perform a Bell test experiment in 1972.

Selected publications

The following are among the most highly cited articles published in the journal during its four-year time span. * * * * *

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Selected publications

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