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Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. For more than 155 years, Scientific American magazine, one of the world's most enduring and revered magazines, has chronicled major innovations and scientific discoveries using expert accounts and assorted journalistic features. More than 120 Nobel laureates have written for Scientific American, most of whom wrote about their prize-winning works years before being recognized by the Nobel Committee. In addition to the likes of Albert Einstein, Francis Crick, Jonas Salk and Linus Pauling, Scientific American continues to attract esteemed authors from many fields: former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, former United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lester Thurow, Mitchell Kapor and Nicholas Negroponte. Scientific American is a truly global enterprise. The magazine publishes 15 foreign language editions and has a total of more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide. In 1986 Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a German-based publishing group, bought Scientific American, Inc.