During its 75th anniversary in 2006, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) will celebrate the many contributions of its ten Member Societies, the individual scientific organizations that form a federation within AIP. At its inception in 1931, five societies belonged to AIP. Today those five founding members have been joined by five additional societies.
“AIP and its Member Societies have significantly driven advances in scientific knowledge through scientific communications in journals and meetings, and by providing services for the physics community, industry, students and the general public,” said Marc H. Brodsky, AIP’s Executive Director and CEO.
The Institute serves member societies and their associates, individual scientists, educators, students, research and development leaders, and the general public. It brings them programs, services and publications in such areas as careers, science education, education and career statistics, media services, government relations, statistics on the profession, industrial physics, and the preservation of oral and written physics history.
"Over the years, AIP has provided valuable and reliable services to its Member Societies," said Bernard Khoury, Executive Officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers, which is also celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006.
At the time of its formal incorporation in the early 1930s, AIP comprised five societies with a total membership of some 4,000 individuals: the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of America, the Society of Rheology, and the newly created American Association of Physics Teachers.
Over the years more Member Societies were added: the American Crystallographic Association (1966), American Astronomical Society (1966), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (1973), AVS (1976), and the American Geophysical Union (1986).
Today the total non-overlapping membership of the ten Member Societies is over 110,000.
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