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The AIP Center for History of Physics and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives preserve and make known the history of modern physical sciences through collecting the historical record of AIP and the Member Societies of AIP, collecting photographs that illustrate the human side of physics research and discovery, creating oral histories of living physicists, and by working with archival repositories all over the world to preserve the personal papers of physicists.
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Photos
Oral Histories
Oral history interview with Walter Cady, 1963 August 28.
Oral history interview with Karl Darrow, 1964 April 2.
Oral history interview with William Havens, 1991 August 5.
Oral history interview with Paul Klopsteg, 1970 March 31.
Oral history interview with Robert Park, 2001 March 4.
Archive Collections
American Physical Society records, 1899-1989.
American Physical Society addition to records, 1905-2010 (bulk 1977-2010).
American Physical Society miscellaneous publications, 1920-2015.
American Physical Society Southeastern Section records, 1934-2004.
American Physical Society Division of Solid State Physics records of Roman Smoluchowski, 1943-1947.
Books and Journals
Manuscripts
The American Physical Society: a survey of its first fifty years, by Melba Phillips, 1988.
Collected papers related to the formation of the division of high polymer physics, 1943-1944.
Collected papers related to the formation of the division of nuclear physics, 1964-1968.
Conception and birth of the DPF (Division of Particles and Fields), 1996.
Audio Visual
Ernest Merritt early APS movies [video recording], 1930-1934.
75th anniversary session of the APS [sound recording], 1974 April 22.
Physics, it's also me [videorecording] / written, produced, and directed by Susan C. Korda; 1985.
Low temperature physics: a historical perspective [videorecording], 2006 March 16.