The importance of German as a scientific language was even greater before WWI than claimed in that BBC article. While the BBC article estimates that of the sci

The importance of German as a scientific language was even greater before WWI than claimed in that BBC article. While the BBC article estimates that of the scientific literature of the 19th century and of the pre-WWI 20th century a third was published in French, a third in English and a third in German, I believe that an estimate much closer to reality would be a quarter in French, a quarter in English and a half in German.