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Meggers Project Award
The William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award is designed to fund projects for the improvement of high school physics teaching in the United States. AIP is accepting Meggers Project Award proposals until June 15, 2025.
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Ana María Cetto Awarded 2025 Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics
MAR 18, 2025
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Samson Shatashvili To Receive 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
MAR 17, 2025
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Inaugural Marian Rose Research Scholarship Awarded to Brianna Hauke
FEB 05, 2025
Priyamvada Natarajan
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Priyamvada Natarajan Wins 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
JAN 16, 2025
Danielle Speller
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2024 Joseph A. Johnson Award Goes to Johns Hopkins University Assistant Professor Danielle Speller
NOV 14, 2024
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Rodrigo Araiza Bravo, 2024-2025 Congressional Science Fellow
OCT 25, 2024
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Mark Feuer DiTusa, 2024-2025 Congressional Science Fellow
OCT 25, 2024
Anisha Singh
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Anisha Singh, 2024-2025 Congressional Science Fellow
OCT 25, 2024
Yaswant Devarkanda
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Yaswant Devarakonda, 2024-2025 State Department Fellow
OCT 25, 2024
Steven Chu
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Steven Chu Named Winner of the 2024 AIP Karl Compton Medal
JUN 26, 2024

AIP Awards & Prizes

AIP honors outstanding achievements in excellence in physics and raises public awareness of the contributions that physicists make to society.

Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics
Andrew Gemant Award
Tate Medal for International Leadership in Physics

Grants & Fellowships

AIP supports the physical sciences with grants to institutions and fellowships for individual scientists and science historians.

William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award
Grants-in-Aid for History of the Physical Sciences
Niels Bohr Library & Archives Grants to Archives
AIP State Department Science Policy Fellowships
AIP Congressional Science Policy Fellowships

Federation Awards

AIP is proud to partner with our Member Societies on strategy-driven projects and to recognize excellence in science and service.

AIP Venture Grants
Dannie Heineman Mathematical Physics Prize
Dannie Heineman Astrophysics Prize
AIP-NSBP Joseph A. Johnson Award
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Scholarships & Awards for Students

The Society of Physics Students provides scholarships, research and travel grants, and outreach awards for students and chapters. SPS also sponsors a summer internship program that offers opportunities for undergraduates in scientific research, education, and public policy.

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