Robert Oppenheimer speaking at the Niels Bohr Library Dedication in New York on September 26, 1962.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection
The rapid policy and funding shifts enacted by the second Trump Administration are upending the status quo of the physical science enterprise in the United States. Our research team is launching a new initiative to collect firsthand accounts of careers derailed or redirected by these funding and policy changes—before details fade and institutional memory is lost. Each story will be added to the Niels Bohr Library & Archives’ digital repository .
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives Grants to Archives
This program assists and encourages archives to undertake significant projects to preserve, process, inventory, arrange, describe, or catalog collections in the history of the physics and allied fields such as astronomy, geophysics, optics, and acoustics. Funds may be used for digitization projects of appropriate scale and significance.
Deadline: October 27
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Grants-in-Aid for History of the Physical Sciences
Offering awards of up to $2,500 each, AIP’s grants-in-aid program supports research in the history of the physical sciences and aims to help develop the community that conducts that research. The program is targeted especially at graduate students, but it also supports undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and well-established scholars and non-professional historians seeking supplemental research funds.
Deadline: November 15
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History from Physics Today
Speakers and attendees during the HEAD Business meeting at the American Astronomical Society’s (AAS) 231th annual meeting at the Gaylord National hotel at National Harbor in Maryland, on Thursday January 11, 2018.
Photo by Todd Buchanan, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, American Astronomical Society Collection
AIP’s digital repository became home to a collection of recent American Astronomical Society photographs, highlighting award winners, keynote speakers, special performances and events, and group gatherings. Explore the collection .
