Celebrating 125 years of The Physical Review

The American Physical Society (APS) is proud to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Physical Review journals. To commemorate this milestone, the editors present a timeline of select papers and events that are of significance to physics and to the history of the APS. From Robert Millikan’s famous oil drop experiments to the discovery of gravitational waves, the Physical Review journals have published a wide range of important results, many of which have been recognized with Nobel and other notable prizes. The papers in the timeline, along with landmark events in the history of the Physical Review, will be highlighted on our journal websites and in social media throughout 2018.