At the turn of the 20th Century, German was the language of science. Annalen der Physik was THE preeminent journal of physics and where many of the important

At the turn of the 20th Century, German was the language of science. Annalen der Physik was THE preeminent journal of physics and where many of the important discoveries that laid the foundation for quantum mechanics and modern physics were published. Einstein published the theory of relativity in Annalen dear Physik for example. Here’s an interesting article that talks about the decline of German language use in science. https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-06/how-did-english-become-language-science https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-06/how-did-english-becom... >>>>And you have a set of people who don’t speak foreign languages,” said Gordin, “They’re comfortable in English, they read English, they can get by in English because the most exciting stuff in their mind is happening in English. So you end up with a very American-centric, and therefore very English-centric community of science after World War II.”