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ON August 12, Dr. Leo Jolowicz will celebrate his seventieth birthday. For many years he has occupied an outstanding position in the German scientific book and publishing business, and has done very much to foster and promote the development and diffusion of the results of scientific research. About fifty years ago, he took over the book business of Gustav Fock in Leipzig, which under his leadership became the largest and best-known 'Antiquariat' of scientific books. Dr. Jolowicz founded the famous publishing house, the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. This firm publishes a large number of well-known scientific journals, including, for example, the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, and many important standard works and reviews, among which may be mentioned the “Handbuch der Experimentalphysik”, “Handbuch der Radiologie”, “Rabenhorst Kryptogamen-Flora”, “Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreiches”, “Ergebnisse der Enzymforschung”, “Ergebnisse der Vitamin- und Hormonforschung”, etc. Among the world's famous publishers who through their deep interest in, and knowledge of, science and learning and their enterprise and imagination do so much to promote the advance of civilization, Dr. Jolowicz occupies a prominent and honoured position.
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Dr. Leo Jolowicz. Nature 142, 244 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142244b0
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