American Institute of Physics

American non-profit organization

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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]
Website| www.aip.org

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

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The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during the Great Depression.[3] The AIP was founded in 1931 at a joint meeting between four physics societies: the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Society of Rheology. These were soon joined by the American Association of Physics Teachers, for a total of five societies.[4] It formally incorporated in 1932 consisting of five original "member societies", and a total of four thousand members. As soon as the AIP was established it began publishing scientific journals.[5] By 1943, the AIP published eight journals: Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, American Journal of Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Applied Physics, and Journal of Chemical Physics.[4]

A new set of member societies was added beginning in the mid-1960s.[5]

The organization restructured in 2013, creating a new subsidiary, AIP Publishing LLC, to manage physical publications of its journals with a smaller board.[6]

## Member societies

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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 Meteorological Society
* American Physical Society
* American Vacuum Society
* Optica
* Society of Rheology

The American Center for Physics, in College Park, Maryland

## Affiliated societies

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* American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Physics
* American Chemical Society, Division of Physical Chemistry
* American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
* American Nuclear Society
* American Society of Civil Engineers
* ASM International
* Astronomical Society of the Pacific
* Biomedical Engineering Society
* Council on Undergraduate Research, Physics & Astronomy Division
* Electrochemical Society
* Geological Society of America
* IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
* International Association of Mathematical Physics
* International Union of Crystallography
* International Centre for Diffraction Data
* Health Physics Society
* Laser Institute of America
* Materials Research Society
* Microscopy Society of America
* National Society of Black Physicists
* Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
* Polymer Processing Society
* Society for Applied Spectroscopy
* Society of Physics Students
* SPIE

## List of publications

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Main article: List of AIP Publishing academic journals

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.[7]

* AIP Advances
* AIP Conference Proceedings
* APL Bioengineering
* APL Materials
* APL Photonics
* Applied Physics Letters
* Applied Physics Reviews
* Biomicrofluidics
* Biophysics Reviews
* Chemical Physics Reviews
* History of Physics Newsletter
* Journal of Applied Physics
* The Journal of Chemical Physics
* Journal of Mathematical Physics
* Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
* Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
* Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
* Chaos
* Low Temperature Physics
* Physics of Fluids
* Physics of Plasmas
* Physics Today
* Review of Scientific Instruments
* Scilight

## AIP style

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Main article: AIP style

AIP created a manual of style first introduced in 1951, called AIP style, which also includes the AIP citation format.[8] It is the most commonly used style and citation format in physics publications.[9][10][11]

## See also

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

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "About AIP". AIP | American Institute of Physics. n.d. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
2. ^ "Organization and Governance". AIP | American Institute of Physics. n.d. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
3. ^ "History of AIP". American Institute of Physics. July 2010.
4. ^ a b Barton, Henry A.; Burnham, George H. (1943). "The American Institute of Physics". Science. 97 (2512). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 172–176\. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1669465. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
5. ^ a b Harry Lustig (May 1999). "TO ADVANCE AND DIFFUSE THE KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICS: An account of the one-hundred year history of the American Physical Society" (PDF). aps.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
6. ^ Michael Lucibella (May 1, 2013). "AIP Reorganizes its Publishing Operations". American Physical Society. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
7. ^ About AIP Publishing
8. ^ AIP Style Manual - Prepared under the Direction of the AIP Publication Board (PDF) (4th ed.). American Institute of Physics. 1990. ISBN 978-0-88318-642-8. OCLC 471598204.
9. ^ Lipson, Charles (2006). Cite Right. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-48475-4. OCLC 62533865.
10. ^ "Citation and style manuals - American Institute of Physics (AIP)". Virginia Tech. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
11. ^ "Science & Engineering Citation Style Guide: American Institute of Physics (AIP)". USC Libraries. Retrieved October 26, 2023.

## External links

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* 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

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#### Niels Bohr Library & Archives

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* 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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