David Bohm reading the newspaper after invoking the Fifth Amendment before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949.
Acme Telephoto, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, courtesy of the AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.
The digital version of AIP’s semiannual History Newsletter is now available on our website . The issue’s feature article examines physicists’ varied experiences during the Red Scare, and it also includes updates from our programs, reports from grant-in-aid recipients, Q&As with physicists with a strong interest in history, and our annual list recognizing the donors who help sustain and expand our history work.
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This blog from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives provides a behind the scenes look at the history and collections we preserve and make accessible. Explore more posts here.
History from Physics Today
We recently posted digitized versions of over 100 manuscript biographies from our collections. These comprise unpublished memoirs written by scientists as well as other autobiographical, biographical, and historical documents. Here are some highlights:
Keith Brueckner,
autobiography (1986)
Edward Condon,
autobiography (1948)
Helen Dukas,
eulogy given by Abraham Pais (1982)
Elizabeth Laird,
autobiography (c. 1960)
Francis Low,
autobiography (c. 1965)
Melba Phillips,
speech transcript (1978)
Adam Riess,
recollections on cosmology (2007)
John Schiffer,
autobiography (2012)
Frederick Seitz,
recollections of 1930–1940 (1992)
John Slater,
recollections by John Van Vleck (1975)
Eizo Tajima,
questionnaire response (1982)
Aomawa Shields,
interviewed January 6, 2016, by Jarita Holbrook
Brent Tully,
interviewed August 3, 2015, by Jarita Holbrook
Dale Van Harlingen,
interviewed May 14, 2020, by David Zierler
A photograph taken at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the mid-2010s showing laboratory staff member Raul Acevedo working on the Inner Shell Spectroscopy beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II facility.
Brookhaven National Lab, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Federal agency and federally funded laboratory photos: AIP recently conducted a small project to pilot processes for incorporating into our Emilio Segrè Visual Archives photos from government-funded institutions that are in the public domain or have Creative Commons licenses.
