On July 28, 1882, Dr. Hans Heinrich Landolt and Dr. Richard Börnstein, both professors at the "Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule" (Agricultural College) at Berlin, signed a contract with the publisher Ferdinand Springer on the publication of a collection of tables with physical-chemical data. The book "Physikalisch-chemische Tabellen" (Physical-Chemical Tables) published in 1883, despite being nearly 140 years old, has never been forgotten and continues to be a valuable resource known to scientists simply as "The Landolt-Börnstein".
Published between 1961 and 2018, the “New Series” Landolt-Börnstein Series includes over 500 volumes with more than 250,000 documents written by more than 1,000 expert authors and editors and is the foundation of SpringerMaterials.
