Finding Aid to the American Association of Physics Teachers miscellaneous publications, 1934-2008Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
One Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740 USA nbl@aip.org
2011 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Amanda Nelson in 2011. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English. Description of the CollectionAmerican Association of Physics Teachers. American Association of Physics Teachers miscellaneous publications 1934-2008 American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 2.5 linear feet5 manuscript box(s) AR20111005 English Publications from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) that include newsletters, membership directories, brochures, reports, pamphlets, reprints, and annual reviews. Includes ANNOUNCER from 1993-94, 2000-2002 and 2005. Selected Search Terms

These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.

American Association of Physics Teachers. Education. Societies, etc. Physics. Publishing. Physics. Societies, etc. Physics. Study and teaching. Periodicals Annual reports. Directories. Newsletters. Reprints. Historical Note

This professional society of teachers of physics in colleges, universities, and secondary schools, was established in 1930 to advance the teaching of physics and further the appreciation of the role of physics in society and culture. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics.

Scope and Contents of Collection

The collection contains miscellaneous publications printed by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) for their members, and include newsletters, membership directories, brochures, reports, pamphlets, reprints, and annual reviews. As well as issues of ANNOUNCER from 1993-94, 2000-2002 and 2005.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

The collection is organized by type beginning with membership directories, then followed by reports or brochures, and newsletters. The membership directories and newsletters are in chronological order; reports are arranged alphabetically.

 Access to Collection

Researchers must have an approved access application on file in order to access archival materials. http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html.

 Provenance and Acquisition Information

Collection is added to on an annual basis as new publications are received.

 Processing Information

Amanda Nelson 2011.

Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], American Association of Physics Teachers miscellaneous publications. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) miscellaneous publications 11 Membership directories, 1934, 1936 12 Membership directories, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1951 13 Membership directories, 1955, 1958, 1961 14 Membership directories, 1964, 1966, 1970 15 Membership directories, 1980 16 Membership directories, 1985, 1989 17 Membership directories, 1994, 1996 21 Directory of academic physics departments, 1961-1963 22 Directory of academic physics departments, 1963-1965 23 Directory of physics faculties, 1965-1966 24 Directory of physics and astronomy faculties, 1967-1968 25 Annual physics show, 1970, 1973-1976, 1979 26 Member rates/services, 1989, 1991 27 Officers, 1963 28 Product advertisements, 1976, undated 29 Programs, undated 31 Aids and sources for the science teacher, undated 32 American Asociation of Physics Teachers Guidelines for the Review of Baccalaureate Physics Programs, 1987 33 Center for Educational Apparatus in Physics: Physics experiments and demonstrations, 1965 34 Committee on Apparatus in Educational Institutions: Apparatus for physics teaching, 1961 35 Committee on Apparatus in Educational Institutions: Apparatus for physics teaching, 1961 36 Committee on Apparatus in Educational Institutions: Lecture demonstrations in physics, 1963 37 Committee on Physics Faculties in Colleges reports, 1964-1965 38 Graduate Education in Physics: Report of the Joint American Physical Society (APS) - American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Task Force, 2005 39 International Physics Olympiad, 1993 310 Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons Proliferation, and the Arms Race, 1963, 1982 311 Powerful Ideas in Physical Science, 1996 312 Resource letters, 1961-1966 41 Selected reprints: Achievement Testing in Physics, 1965 42 Selected reprints: Black Holes, 1982 43 Selected reprints: Friction, 1963 44 Selected reprints: Kinematics and Dynamics of Satellite Orbits, 1963 45 Selected reprints: Mossbauer Effect, 1963 46 Selected reprints: Nuclear Structure, 1965 47 Selected reprints: Polarized Light, 1961 48 Selected reprints: Quantum and Statistical Aspects of Light, 1963 49 Selected reprints: Superconductivity, 1964 410 Survey of teaching apparatus in physics, 1961, 1965 411 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Announcer, Winter 1993-1994 51 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Announcer, 1999 52 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Announcer, 2000 53 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Announcer, 2001 54 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Announcer, Spring 2002, Spring 2005 55 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Annual Review, 2006-2007 56 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Annual Review, 2007-2008