American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Project on the History of Recent Physics.
AIP CHP Project on the History of Recent Physics addition to records, 1955-1981 (bulk 1961-1966).
This collection contains reports, memoranda, correspondence, reprints and newspaper clippings relating to over twenty years of the Project on the History of Recent Physics. This addition contains advisory committee correspondence, published reports, minutes and agendas of meetings, newsletters, and member directories. It also documents the work of John J. Beer as staff consultant, containing correspondence relating to his work on the history of research in physics in industrial laboratories between 1890 and 1960. Other miscellaneous items include the history of the University of Pennsylvanias department of physics, notes on the 40th anniversary of the American Institute of Physics and the 50th anniversary of Sigma Pi Sigma.
The Project on the History of Recent Physics arose out of the American Institute of Physics' Committee on the History and Philosophy of Physics. Initial funding for the Project came from National Science Foundation grants awarded in 1961 and 1963. Dr. W. James King was named Director of the Project in mid-1961. The early staff also included a full-time secretary and some part-time assistants. The project was overseen by an Advisory Committee chaired by Dr. Gerald Holton of Harvard University. Activities pursued included the collection of historical materials and biographical and bibliographical information on leading physicists. Dr. John J. Beer joined the Project on the History of Recent Physics in 1963 to coordinate the Project's collecting of information and archival material from industrial companies involved in physics research. He served as a staff consultant while still a member of the faculty at the University of Delaware and left the project in 1964 after generating a final report of his efforts.
Beer, John Joseph, 1927-.
American Institute of Physics -- Anniversaries, etc.
American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Project on the History of Recent Physics.
Sigma Pi Sigma.
University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Physics -- History.
Physics -- History.
Newsletters. aat
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA