A Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG, Sociedade de Física da Alemanha) é a maior organização de físicos do mundo. Em 2012 o número de seus membros era de 62 000. A sociedade organiza uma conferência anual (Jahrestagung) e diversas conferências de primavera (Frühjahrstagungen), em diferentes locais. DPG – Official Web site Circa 1918 its membership was about 750 and in the 1930s about 1400. See Hentschel, 1996, Appendix A.
Formação A DPG foi fundada em 1899, sucedendo a Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin (Sociedade dos Físicos de Berlim), estabelecida em 14 de janeiro de 1845. Os seis fundadores da Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin foram: Gustav Karsten (1820-1900, físico) Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz (1817-1880, químico) Hermann Knoblauch (1820-1895, físico) Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819-1892, fisiologista) Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896, fisiologista) Wilhelm von Beetz (1822-1886, físico) Somente três dos fundadores eram físicos, e todos os seis fundadores ainda não tinham 28 anos de idade, e todos alunos do físico Heinrich Gustav Magnus. Presidentes miniatura|Presidentes da Deusche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Magnus-Haus, Berlim
PeríodoNome 1845–1847Gustav Karsten1847–1878Emil du Bois-Reymond1878–1895Hermann von Helmholtz1895–1897Wilhelm von Bezold1897–1899Emil Warburg1899–1905Emil Warburg1905–1906Max Planck1906 Paul Drude1906–1907 Max Planck1907–1908 Heinrich Rubens1908–1909 Max Planck1909–1910 Heinrich Rubens1910–1912 Ferdinand Kurlbaum1912–1914 Heinrich Rubens1914–1915 Fritz Haber1915–1916 Max Planck1916–1918 Albert Einstein1918–1919 Max Wien1919–1920 Arnold Sommerfeld1920–1922 Wilhelm Wien1922–1924 Franz Himstedt1924–1925 Max Wien1925–1927 Friedrich Paschen1927–1929 Heinrich Konen1929–1931 Egon Schweidler1931–1933 Max von Laue1933–1935 Karl Mey1935–1937 Jonathan Zenneck1937–1939 Peter Debye1939–1940 Jonathan Zenneck1940–1945 Carl Ramsauer1950–1951 Jonathan Zenneck1952–1953 Karl August Wolf1954 Richard Becker1955 Karl August Wolf1956–1957 Walther Gerlach1958–1959 Ferdinand Trendelenburg1960–1961 Wilhelm Walcher1962–1963 Konrad Ruthardt1964–1965 Fritz Bopp1966–1967 Wolfgang Finkelnburg1968–1969 Martin Kersten1970–1971 Karl Ganzhorn1972–1973 Werner Buckel1974–1975 Otto Koch1976–1977 Hans-Joachim Queisser1978–1979 Heinrich Welker1980–1981 Horst Rollnik1982–1983 Karl Joachim Schmidt-Tiedemann1984–1986 Joachim Treusch1986–1988 Joachim Trümper1988–1990 Otto Gert Folberth1990–1992 Theo Mayer-Kuckuk1992–1994 Herwig Schopper1994–1996 Hans G. Danielmeyer1996–1998 Markus Schwoerer1998–2000 Alexander M. Bradshaw2000–2002 Dirk Basting2002–2004 Roland Sauerbrey2004–2006 Knut Urban2006-2008 Eberhard Umbach2008-2010 Gerd Litfin2010-2012 Wolfgang Sandner2012-2014 Johanna Stachel2014-2016 Edward Krubasik2016-2018 Rolf-Dieter Heuer2018-2020 Dieter Meschede2020-2022 Lutz Schröter
Bibliografia Beyerchen, Alan D. Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (Yale, 1977) ISBN 0-300-01830-4 Heilbron, J. L. The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science (Harvard, 2000) ISBN 0-674-00439-6 Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996) ISBN 0-8176-5312-0 Hoffmann, Dieter Between Autonomy and Accommodation: The German Physical Society during the Third Reich, Physics in Perspective 7(3) 293-329 (2005) Jungnickel, Christa and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature. Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, Volume 2: The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870 to 1925. (University of Chicago Press, Paper cover, 1990) ISBN 0-226-41585-6 Kragh, Helge Quantum Generations: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 1999) ISBN 0-691-09552-3
Ligações externas DPG – Official Web site DPG – Medals and Prizes DPG – Membership 1938 vs. 1939 DPG – Physik konkret - Fact sheet (published by DPG periodically)
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