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Services broaden to include programs
J. Robert Oppenheimer at the dedication of the Niels Bohr Library, 1962.
Starting around 1950, the revenue generated from AIP-owned publications enabled the Institute to hire staff dedicated to programs that serve more broadly the Member Societies, individual physicists, and the public at large.
Several programs were added in the areas of education and careers, statistics, industry outreach and history. Other programs were developed in the coming decades, in the areas of science news, media, and government relations. A few of the milestones include:
- 1941 – First education and employment surveys
- 1950 – Student chapters initiated on college campuses
- 1953 – Corporate Associates began
- 1956 – Office of Information and Public Relations established to promote physics to the public
- 1958 – Programs in education, statistical research and career services begun under the Education and Manpower division
- 1959 – First meeting of the Corporate Associates, later known as the Industrial Physics Forum
- 1962 – Niels Bohr Library founded
- 1965 – Center for History of Physics established
- 1965 – Graduate Programs in Physics, Astronomy, and Related Fields first published; its online presence appeared in 2001 as GradschoolShopper.com
- 1968 – Society of Physics Students established with the merger of AIP Student Sections and the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society (See also: History of Sigma Pi Sigma)
- 1988 – First Science Policy Fellowship awarded
- 1989 – Government relations initiated and media services brought under the Office of Public Information. FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News begins publication.
- 2000 – Discoveries & Breakthroughs Inside Science television program began (developed into Inside Science)
- 2002 – Physics Today Career Network (online job boards) started
- 2013 – Governing Board spun off publishing operations under the purview of AIP Publishing, LLC
- 2014 – Governing Board reseated as AIP Board of Directors
- 2015 – Member Society office established