Angewandte Chemie announces new chief editor

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Neville Compton will become the new editor of Angewandte Chemie on Oct. 1. He succeeds Peter Golitz, who has been editor-in-chief since 1982. Angewandte Chemie, a publication of the German Chemical Society and Wiley-VCH, is published in both German and English. The German edition is in its 129th volume; the English-language, international edition, its 56th. Under Golitz’s leadership, Angewandte transformed itself from a national to an international journal. He attracted authors from around the world and developed the journal’s magazine section. “Peter oversaw Angewandte when it was leading the way in terms of innovation in chemistry publishing,” says Stuart Cantrill, chief editor of Nature Chemistry. Cantrill points out that Angewandte was one of the first publications to require graphical abstracts. It also put attractive pictures on the cover at a time when many other chemistry journals had nondescript covers. Many chemists likely can’t remember a time in their professional lives