Annales de chimie et de physique


Annales de chimie et de physique is a scientific journal founded in Paris, France, in 1789 under the title Annales de chimie. One of the early editors was the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier. Lavoisier, an aristocrat, was guillotined in May 1794, ostensibly for tax fraud: and the journal was not published from 1794 to 1796 while the Reign of Terror was at its height under the French Directory.
In 1815, it became the Annales de chimie et de physique, and was published under that name for the next 100 years.
In 1914, it split into two successor journals. The first one, Annales de physique, was latterly published by EDP Sciences under the same name up to 2009, when it became integrated in the European Physical Journal series as the European Physical Journal H – Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics. The second successor, Annales de chimie, later became Annales de chimie: Science des matériaux in 1978; from 1998 to 2004, it was published online by Elsevier, and since 2004, it has been managed online by the publishing company. Despite the name changes, the volume numbering maintained continuity between the different titles, both for the physics journal and the chemistry journal.

Notable works

  • A. Fresnel, 1818, "Mémoire sur la diffraction de la lumière", deposited 29 July 1818, "crowned" 15 March 1819, published in Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France, vol. , ; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, ; partly translated as , in Crew, 1900, pp. 81–144.
  • D.F.J. Arago and A. Fresnel, 1819, "Mémoire sur l'action que les rayons de lumière polarisée exercent les uns sur les autres", Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Ser.2, vol. 10, pp. 288–305, March 1819; reprinted in Fresnel, 1866–70, vol. 1, ; translated as , in Crew, 1900, pp. 145–55.

    Listings

  • Partially complete series 1789–1913 in downloadable PDF format on Gallica.bnf.fr
  • * Series 1
  • * Series 2–8
  • Partially complete series 2 through 6 of on archive.org
  • Indexes
  • *Series 1, 96 issues
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  • * Series 2, 75 issues
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  • * Series 3, 69 issues
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  • * Index to Series 7, 30 issues
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    Other collections

  • – includes listings for:
  • *Annales de chimie – 1789–1800, 1914–1977
  • *Annales de chimie et de physique – 1816–1913
  • *Annales de chimie – science des matériaux – 1978–1998
  • – includes listings for:
  • *Annales de Chimie – Science des Matériaux 1789–1815;1914–2004, vols 1–96, 1–29
  • *Annales de Chimie et de Physique 1816–1913, series –.
  • : entry for Annales de chimie – science des matériaux
  • : entry for Annales de physique
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