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Grants to Archives Program
Makes Important Collections Accessible
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| Poster for an exhibit at
the UC-Irvine Main and Science Libraries, January-May 2000,
celebrating the opening of the Frederick Reines Papers. The
processing of the Reines Papers was partly supported by an AIP
History Center Grant. |
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In 1998 the AIP Center for History of Physics created a Grants to Archives
program, earmarking $30,000 in income from the endowment fund of the Friends
of the Center to support the arrangement and description of collections
in physics and allied fields at archives around the world. We received
17 applications during the first year, and because of the strength of
the proposals and the need that they demonstrated for support, we’ve continued
and expanded the program with the help of an anonymous New York foundation.
In 1999 and 2000 we awarded $60,000 annually, with grants ranging up to
$10,000 each. The grants are competitive and require matching funds; the
grants that we funded in 1999 had a total of $300,000 in promised or anticipated
matches.
The Center’s modest investment has had important consequences for science
historians and archivists. A number of important collections are now processed
and available to researchers many years earlier than might otherwise have
been possible. Another result is that some archives have been able to
begin cleaning up some of their backlogs and to work more actively to
take in new collections. Thanks to the generosity of Friends who have
built up our endowment, the program can continue in future years so long
as a strong need persists. For current program guidelines see our Web
site at www.aip.org/history/grntgde.htm
or contact us at chp@aip.org (301-209-3165).
Grants Awarded, 2000
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| Institution |
Amount |
Project |
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Georgia Tech Research Corporation
|
$5,862 |
Joseph Ford Papers |
| National Cataloguing Unit
for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (United Kingdom) |
$10,000 |
S. Keith Runcorn Papers |
| National Center for Atmostpheric
Research |
$6,473 |
Philip D. Thompson Papers |
| Russian Academy of Science |
$9,932 |
Papers of D.I. Blokhintsev,
N.N. Bogoliubov, V.I. Goldansky, B.M. Pontekorvo, D.V. Skobeltsyn
and Ya B. Zeldovich |
| University of Aarhus (Denmark) |
$8,600 |
Bengt Strömgren Papers |
| University of Minnesota |
$10,000 |
Papers of Alfred O.C. Nier,
Phyllis Freier and Edward Ney |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution |
$10,000 |
Papers of Columbus O'D.
Iselin, John B. Hersey, John M. Hunt, Nicholas P. Fofonoff, raymond
B. Montgomery, Charles D. Hollister and William S. von Arx |
Grants Awarded, 1999
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| Institution |
Amount |
Project |
| California Institute of
Technology |
$3,103 |
Robert Leighton, Robert
Walker Papers |
| Niels Bohr Archive (Denmark) |
$10,000 |
Aage Bohr, Allan Mackintosh
Papers |
| Princeton University |
$10,000 |
Survey & organize physics
collections |
| Smithsonian Institution
Archives |
$10,000 |
Riccardo Giacconi Papers |
| Stanford University (SLAC) |
$10,000 |
Burton Richter Papers |
| University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
$10,000 |
Sydney Chapman Papers |
| University of California,
Berkeley |
$10,000 |
Exploratorium Records |
| University of California,
San Diego |
$10,000 |
Edward Allan Frieman Papers |
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Grants Awarded, 1998
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| Institution |
Amount |
Project |
| California Institute of
Technology |
$8,325 |
William A. Fowler Papers |
| Russian Academy of Science |
$9,200 |
Anatoly Aleksandrov, Yakov Zel'dovich, V.V. Shuleykin, etc. Papers
|
| University of California,
Irvine |
$10,000 |
Frederick Reines Papers |
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