Behind the Scenes

drawn portrait in black on a beige background: Portrait of Henry Cavendish

Working to Preserve The Man Who Weighed the World

Nancy Roman holding a model of OSO

Nancy Grace Roman and Early Space Telescopes

Roger Bacon's Optics

Eight men and three women sit or stand behind a laboratory table on which is visible drinking cups and beakers with stirers in them. Some laboratory equipment is visible in the background.

A History Mystery: Adventures Identifying People in a Photograph

A gray table with, from left to right, a laptop, and open manila folder, and an open carton box with folders inside it. A file cabinet is visible in the background.

Wikipedia Dispatches: What Does a Wikipedian-in-Residence Do?

Librarians classifying books at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [1933]

Books on the Fringe

"The cube" of AIP's headquarters building

Happy Birthday to Us!

Portrait of Ronald Mickens

Initial Conditions Episode 8: An Interview with Dr. Ronald Mickens

AIP vaults

The New Library & Archives Vault

From Foote-Note to Climate Science Founder

Pride Month Book Recommendations

The Role of a Library Project Assistant

Breaking the Barrier: Dr. Abdus Salam

Complements to Physics: How History Can Enhance Physics Teaching

Fires, Freezers, and Digital Files: Film Preservation Basics

Curating the Sky

For the Love of Information

For the Love of Books

The Meteorologist, the Library, and the Hurricane

Q&A with a Book Donor

Hamilton Unboxed!

Wenner unboxed!

Kelvin, Wenner, and the Ages of the Sun and the Earth

One Inventory to Rule Them All

Pierre-Simon Laplace Speaks

The Wenner Collection

What's in the Wenner Collection?

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