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A SPECIAL issue of Die Naturwissenschaften for December 16 celebrates the seventieth birthday on December 26 of its founder and editor, Dr. Arnold Berliner. It extends to 73 pages, includes scientific contributions from more than forty authors and a frontispiece portrait of Dr. Berliner. Prof. Einstein in a short note recounts how twenty years ago Dr. Berliner saw that a periodical was wanted in Germany which would give accurate information on all branches of science and thus enable research workers in special fields to form their own opinions of advances in other fields. That his periodical has succeeded so well in this object is due to the catholicity of his interests and to his insistence that his contributors should express themselves in concise and clear language which could be understood by non-specialists. His fights to secure well written articles led him to say that a scientific author should be “a cross between a mimosa and a porcupine”.
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Dr. Arnold Berliner. Nature 131, 127–128 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131127d0
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