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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a membership corporation created in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application.

As an "umbrella" organization, AIP supports ten Member Societies. The institute is one of the world's largest publishers of physics journals and produces the publications of more than 25 scientific and engineering societies through its New York-based publishing division. It has an annual budget (in 2008) of approximately US$ 75 million with a staff of more than 450 employees located in its headquarters in College Park, Maryland and in its publishing center in Melville, New York.

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Acoustical Society of America
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Astronomical Society
American Crystallographic Association
American Geophysical Union
American Physical Society
AVS: Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
Optical Society of America
The Society of Rheology

Most important journals[edit]

The most important journals (with links to their homepages) published by the AIP are: