Happy 2025 to all of our readers! The end of this month will mark the start of Chinese New Year festivities, ushering in the Year of the Snake. I therefore want to take the opportunity to highlight ...

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We are lucky to host interviews with many wonderful authors of books on the history of physics, but it is with particular excitement that we share today’s article featuring the work of historian Dr.

The Industrial Physicist (TIP) magazine ceased publication effective with the December 2004/January 2005 issue. The archive can be viewed here. Ongoing coverage of industrial physics can be found at ...

Spencer R. Weart, born in 1942, received a B.A. in Physics at Cornell University in 1963 and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1968. He then worked for ...

The Center for History of Physics supports the efforts of the scholarly community to document, investigate, and understand the nature and origin of developments in modern physics and their impact on ...

It’s not easy being a physics undergrad these days. Please help fund the Food for Hungry Physics and Astronomy Students and the AIP-SPS Undergraduate Student Pandemic Assistance Program. While we ...

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