Re: How do physicists deal journals in other languages?

On 17 oct, 16:18, blackhead <larryhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you have a look at Feynman and Wheeler's:

Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Actionhttp://prola.aps.org/pdf/RMP/v21/i3/p425_1

There are references to French and German journals. Is it really the
case that these two guys were multi-lingual?

How do physicists get around the problem of trying to read a journal
in another language they can't speak?

They simply don't and remain ignorant, or have to ask a colleague
to help them out, or else they have to reinvent for the nth time
the 4 hole button.

All major discoverers of the past were multilingual.

No physicist can really become privy to all valuable past research
without being able to read at least 4 languages. Generally, English,
French, German and Russian, or any other depending on the
area of interest.

Contrary to popular assumption in the Anglo community, far from
all important issues have been translated to English.

This is the one reason for original languages papers to be referenced
in the first place in English papers.

André Michaud

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