American Institute of Physics

American Institute of Physics

Abbreviation	AIP
Formation	1931
Type	501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation[1]
Purpose	Promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.[1]
Headquarters	American Center for Physics (ACP)
Location	College Park, Maryland
Membership	120,000 scientists, engineers, educators, and students[1]
CEO	Michael H. Moloney
Budget	75 million USD[2]
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland, but the institute also has offices in Melville, New York, and Beijing.^[1]

Historical overview

The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during the Great Depression.^[3] It formally incorporated in 1932 consisting of five original "member societies", and a total of four thousand members. A new set of member societies was added beginning in the mid-1960s. As soon as the AIP was established it began publishing scientific journals.^[4]

Member societies

The American Center for Physics, in College Park, Maryland

Affiliated societies

List of publications

The AIP has a subsidiary called AIP Publishing (wholly owned non-profit) dedicated to scholarly publishing by the AIP and its member societies, as well on behalf of other partners.^[5]

AIP style

AIP created a manual of style first introduced in 1951, called AIP style, which also includes the AIP citation format.^[6] It is the most commonly used style and citation format in physics publications.^[7][8][9]

See also

• Institute of Physics
• PACS
• Science Writing Award
• SPIE
• Joan Warnow-Blewett

References

External links

• AIP website
• Member societies of the AIP
• AIP journals
• AIP Scitation website, which host academic articles of journals published by societies members of AIP, and by societies who decided to host their articles on the platform
• American Center for Physics website

Archival collections

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

• American Center for Physics Board of Directors records of Bernard Khoury, 1990–2005
• American Center for Physics Board of Directors records of Bernard Khoury, 2005–2009
• AIP News Services Division Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS) master tapes [videorecording], 1999–2011
• AIP Advertising Division records of Edward P. Tober, 1956–1975
• AIP Career Services miscellaneous publications, 1960–1998
• AIP Center for History of Physics History of Physicists in Industry records, 2003–2008
• AIP Center for History of Physics miscellaneous publications, 1963–2017
• AIP Office of the Director Van Zandt Williams records, 1964–1966
• AIP Physics Resources Center records of James Stith, 1987–2009
• AIP Office of the Director records of Kenneth Ford, 1979–1994
• AIP Office of the Director H. William Koch and Kenneth W. Ford records, 1966–1992

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