Welcome to the first edition of the new AIP History Monthly Update! In addition to timely news about AIP History and Niels Bohr Library & Archives activities, this newsletter will feature announcements of upcoming Trimble Lectures, posts from our Ex Libris Universum blog, articles from our history community from the new Weekly Edition newsletter, newly cataloged collections, and more. To receive these monthly updates by email, subscribe here .
We are also excited to announce the launch of our newly upgraded website. It features a refreshed design, making it easier to discover and navigate our many resources, alongside those provided by AIP’s statistical and policy research teams. Check out our new look on our Library
and Resources
pages. Additionally, our digital collections have migrated to a new and improved digital repository
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This month, AIP’s history team launched a new Weekly Edition email newsletter that appears every Friday. Subscribe here.
This blog from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives provides a behind the scenes look at the history and collections we preserve and make accessible, the hidden figures and stories we make known, and the services we provide to the history of science community and the public. Explore more posts here.
AIP’s oral history collection has now migrated to our newly upgraded digital repository
. Transcripts added this month are:
- Robert Byer , interviewed Nov. 20, 2024, by Michael Duncan.
- Sergio Boixo , interviewed Sept. 10, 2024, by William Thomas.
- Richard Canfield , interviewed Aug. 29, 2017, by Samantha Thompson.
- Douglas Duncan , interviewed March 23, 2022, by David DeVorkin
- Martin Fejer , interviewed Nov. 19, 2024, by Michael Duncan
- Tamir Gonen , interviewed July 9, 2023, by Jonathan Phillips
- Andrew Kraynik , interviewed Oct. 15 & 16, 2024, by Jonathan Phillips
Lucy Schütz (née Mensing, second from left), Lise Meitner, Wilhelm Schütz (far right), and others on a hike in the Austrian Alps in 1934.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Mensing Collection, Gift of Dr. Dorothea Roloff
- Lucy Mensing Collection : Photos of Lucy Mensing, pioneer of early development of quantum mechanics. Features family photos mostly of her time working with Alfred Landé, donated by her daughter, Dr. Dorothea Roloff.
- Astronomy Rosters from the AIP Statistical Research Archive: The Astronomy Roster is a compilation of data collected in AIP’s Annual Survey of Enrollments and Degrees. AIP has collected astronomy-specific data in this survey annually since 1977/78 and actively collects, compiles, and publishes its findings to date.
- American Association of Physics Teachers records,1929-2002: New finding aid. This collection includes meeting materials, correspondence, committee reports, special project documents, and other administrative records from the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT).
- Malcolm Thurgood correspondence and remembrance book,1943-1945: New finding aid. This collection contains correspondence from Sergeant Malcom Thurgood to his family during his time as a photographer for the Alsos Mission in World War II.
AIP received nineteen applications for grants-in-aid for historical research projects in its spring cycle and plans to make about five awards in the coming weeks. This is an extraordinary expansion of the applicant pool, reaching a broader community of historians than ever before, and we would like to thank everyone who took the time to apply. The next deadline will be Nov. 15, 2025.
