Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
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- #Scientific History
- #Retractions
- #Max Planck
- Two of Max Planck's papers from the 1940s were inexplicably retracted by the journal Naturwissenschaften, leaving blank pages with a note citing 'article violation'.
- Physics historians Yves Gingras and Mahdi Khelfaoui investigated after discovering Planck's name on a list of Nobel laureates with retracted papers.
- The journal's editor-in-chief was unaware of the retractions and suggested they might be due to an algorithmic error, calling for rectification.