2025 AIP Research Agenda
2025 AIP Research Agenda
A core component of AIP’s overall Research Strategy is the implementation of an Annual Research Agenda. Each year, AIP staff will work with leaders from AIP’s 10 Member Societies and AIP’s Board of Directors to establish and publish a research agenda that identifies three to seven topics on which we will concentrate our research activities for that year. For the inaugural AIP Research Agenda, our research team will be focusing on five key topics.
Our Collections
Our Collections
Located in College Park, Maryland, AIP’s Niels Bohr Library & Archives is a repository and clearinghouse for information in the history of the physical sciences. In-house holdings include an outstanding collection of textbooks, monographs and related publications; over 30,000 photographs and other images ; over 2,000 oral histories with many of the outstanding figures in the fields that we cover; and archival records of AIP and its Member Societies along with other archival records and personal papers of a small number of scientists.
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Knowledge Resources
Knowledge Resources
AIP Research resources provide critical information about the development, governance, and vitality of the physical sciences enterprise. These include data covering demographics and career paths, trackers covering US science budgets and legislation, and historical exhibits, interviews, and events.
Funding and Community-Building Opportunities
Funding and Community-Building Opportunities
AIP funds historical research and archival preservation activities through our Grants-in-Aid and Grants to Archives programs. In addition, AIP organizes and provides travel funding for a conference series for early-career historians whose research focuses on the physical sciences.
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LIGO Hanford. Photo credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab. | Still from Peter Galison, “Shattering Stars,” animation by Shiv Kachiwala | AIP, “Who’s Hiring Physics PhDs?” Jan. 25, 2024 | 1983 Meeting of the Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics, John J. Hopfield, “Collective Properties of Neuronal Networks” | Former AIP Niels Bohr Library location in New York City, AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives | AIP history director Spencer Weart demonstrates computerized Niels Bohr Library & Archives resources, AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives | Participants at the Fifth Early-Career Conference at the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen, Denmark, photo courtesy of Christian Joas