Arnold Berliner (Gut Mittelneuland bei

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, 22 March 1942) was a German physicist.

Biography

Berliner graduated in physics from the

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in 1886. He worked in the research and development laboratories of the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG). Around the middle of 1912 he was appointed by the publishing firm Springer Verlag,

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as editor of the new scientific magazine '' Naturwissenschaften'', inspired by the prestigious British scientific journal ''

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'', first published in November 1869. Naturwissenschaften began publication in January 1913. He became a good friend of immunologist

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...

and chemist

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Nazi Germany and suicide

Berliner was dismissed on 13 August 1935, from the journal he had founded 22 years earlier because of the racial policies on "non-Aryans" implemented by the Nazi government. The decision was reported in ''Nature'' (See ''Nature'' 136, 506-506; 28 September 1935), which editorialized: Berliner committed suicide the day before an evacuation order (meaning deportation to an extermination camp) became effective.

Honors

In 1933, the main-belt asteroid 1018 Arnolda, discovered at Heidelberg Observatory by Karl Reinmuth, was named after Berliner on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

References

Abraham Pais Abraham Pais (; May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. ...

, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1918 - Copenhagen, Denmark, 2000). Dutch-American Jewish Nuclear Physicist, ''"Subtle is the Lord—": The science and the life of Albert Einstein'', (Oxford University Press, 1982), . . Philosophy, , and its sequel, ''Einstein Lived Here'' (Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1994), . Albert Einstein, (1879–1955) was very close, intellectually speaking, to Arnold Berliner. * A brief obituary notice was published in Nature 150, 284-284 (5 September 1942). *

Fritz Stern Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused ...

, ''Einstein's German World'', Princeton University Press, (1999). {{DEFAULTSORT:Berliner, Arnold 1862 births 1942 suicides 20th-century German physicists 19th-century German physicists Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences University of Breslau alumni Suicides in Germany 19th-century German Jews Jewish physicists Suicides by Jews during the Holocaust German Jews who died in the Holocaust