I am delighted to continue our author interview series with this conversation with sociologist Janet Vertesi. The goal for this interview series is to connect with researchers who are publishing ...

Over 50 teaching guides on the history of physics, astronomy, and other physical sciences, highlighting contributions across the diverse community of scientists. These teaching guides meet national ...

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 ...

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Our free newsletter reports on work in the history of physics (and allied fields such as astronomy and geophysics), carried out at the American Institute of Physics and elsewhere. Its goal is to bring ...

One of the best ways to communicate with a Member of Congress is through a well-reasoned personal letter. Your correspondence will be more effective if you follow these guidelines: ...

In honor of the International Day of Light, anthropologist Savannah Mandel takes a sociocultural retrospective to understand the science behind rainbows. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the ...

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 ...

Initial conditions provide the context in which physics happens. Likewise, in Initial Conditions: a Physics History Podcast, we provide the context in which physical discoveries happened. We dive into ...

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 ...

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For pioneering contributions to the science and technology of hydrogenated amorphous silicon, and the development of flat panel x-ray medical imaging Robert Street received a Ph.D. in 1971 from ...