Carl A. Rouse would have been 100 years old #OTD 🎂 📷 Lorraine Moxley-Rouse and Carl Rouse in at home in Del Mar, California. AIP ESVA. 📷 Carl Rouse at his home office, seated in front of the PC he uses to access the San Diego Supercomputer Center. AIP ESVA #PhysicsHistory #STEMLegacy

In celebration of Disability Pride Month, we pulled archival images from the remarkable life of Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who lived most of her adult life with rheumatoid arthritis. Read on our blog: https://bit.ly/4h6fy3m

Meet Wanda Díaz-Merced, an astronomer with vision impairment who has advanced the use of sonification—turning data into sound—to enable her to participate in science. It also improves the work of seeing scientists. 📷 IAU/M. Zamani. CC BY 4.0. #DisabilityPrideMonth #AccessibilityInSTEM

Particle physicist Bibha Chowdhuri was born #OTD in 1913. She was one of the earliest women in particle physics in India and her foundational research on cosmic rays helped lay groundwork for the study of mesons. 📷 Wikimedia Commons #BibhaChowdhuri #ParticlePhysics #CosmicRays #WomenInPhysics

It’s #DisabilityPrideMonth. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist researching dark matter and the early universe. She also lives with chronic pain and is a leading advocate for increasing inclusivity in physics - see the Particles for Justice movement. 📷 AAS, courtesy ESVA

📚 From biographies and memoirs to romance novels, LGBTQ+ scientists and stories have shaped how we understand the world. AIP’s librarians curated a reading list that reflects just how wide that impact is. https://bit.ly/4uUvFVL #PrideMonth #LGBTQinSTEM

Physics is just boring math? 📚 Our shelves suggest otherwise. From music and meteorology to art, religion, design, science fiction, and the history of ideas, the history of physics reaches far beyond equations. #HistoryOfScience #PhysicsHistory #LibraryLife #Archives #ScienceBooks #NBLA

From biographies and memoirs to romance novels, LGBTQ+ scientists and stories have shaped how we understand the world. AIP’s librarians curated a reading list that reflects just how wide that impact is. What’s on your Pride reading list this year? #PrideMonth #LGBTQinSTEM #ScienceHistory

For decades, AIP attempted something that sounds almost impossible: documenting physics-related archival collections from repositories around the world. The result was ICOS, the International Catalog of Sources. Learn about the history of the project & why it's being retired: https://bit.ly/4gulzGG

⚽ Most families have one overachiever. The Bohrs had two. Harald Bohr played soccer for Denmark at the 1908 Olympics while his brother Niels went on to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. Read the surprisingly sporty history: https://bit.ly/3SLgPmf #HistoryOfScience #FootballHistory

📚🌌 “I study exploding binary stars while exploding the myth of a gender binary.” Astrophysicist Jan Eldridge’s 2024 oral history is a wonderful reminder that the history of science includes research, teaching, fandom, advocacy, and identity all at once. https://bit.ly/43fObfk

Astronomer Frank Kameny earned his PhD at Harvard in 1956 after studying under Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. A year later, he was fired by the US government for being gay during the Lavender Scare. He fought back & became a major LGBTQ+ rights activist. https://bit.ly/4jNmMqR #FrankKameny #PrideInSTEM

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer with his horse, Crisis, at his New Mexico ranch in 1940. 🐎 📷 Photo by Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, wife of Robert. Courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Emilio Segrè (left), namesake of our visual archives, sips tea with Homi J. Bhabha (right), who has been called the “master builder of nuclear India.” 📸AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Segrè Collection

When you do your job so well that 60 years later some poor archivist has to spend 3 hours alphabetizing your fan mail... AIP's popular Placement Service, which helped match physics jobseekers to employers, ran from 1946-1978. Collection finding aid: https://history.aip.org/ead/20250576.html

Happy International Museum Day! https://www.aip.org/library/museum-tour

In this new interview for @aiphistory.bsky.social I talked with physicist Shohini Ghose about her research on hidden histories of women in science, archival evidence, and why storytelling matters in teaching physics and astronomy. www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

Physicist Shohini Ghose reflects on the women scientists whose groundbreaking work transformed our understanding of the universe while often remaining unrecognized in the historical record in her book "Her Space, Her Time." Read our interview: https://bit.ly/4ubGXow

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, @aiphistory.bsky.social shares reading recommendations for all ages, from memoirs of physicists and astronomers to children’s books. www.aip.org/library/ex-l...

Extremely proud to say that my new @physicstoday.aip.org feature article is live. In it, I explore the history and context of the rare interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer recently made public by @aiphistory.bsky.social. physicstoday.aip.org/features/opp...

Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016) was a chemist known for his pioneering work on femtochemistry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, making him the first Egyptian to receive a science Nobel Prize. 📷© Christian Brun / EPFL, courtesy AIP ESVA, PT Collection #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth

April 26 – May 2, 2026 is Preservation Week - an important time to reflect on our oral history interview collection! 🎤 https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/preservation-week-a-reflection-on-interviewing-early-career-women-physicists

Maha Ashour-Abdalla (1943-2016) was a physicist and astronomer who spent much of her career teaching at UCLA. She founded UCLA’s Center for Digital Innovation in 1999, as well as the UCLA Space Plasma Simulation Group. 📷 Courtesy UCLA Newsroom. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #WomeninPhysics

The new open access volume "Archives of Science: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century," confronts a central question: How can archives keep pace with the evolving practices of science? Check out @tjowens.bsky.social's interview with ed. Polina Ilieva: https://bit.ly/4sYPSrU

Munir Nayfeh (b. 1945) is a particle physicist best known for his pioneering work in nanotechnology. 📷 Nayfeh (right) examines the experimental setup used in the one-atom detection at Oak Ridge. ORNL, courtesy AIP ESVA #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth

Research for this post began with a sense that most celebrations of Asian and Asian American history often leave out South Asians. The author found a fascinating history of South Asian scientists not just making contributions to but often leading the way in 20th century physics. bit.ly/4mP0iJa

“If indeed no worldwide action to reduce fossil fuel use would be taken, it might be better to focus research on how best to live with the consequences rather than, like Cassandra, deliver prophecies no one believes.” - William Elliot, 1977 #EarthDay #climatechange Listen now https://bit.ly/4cnFjcV

Last week, @aiphistory.bsky.social announced it would provide open access to 3 interviews w/J. Robert Oppenheimer. In today's #histSTM & #physics lunchtime read, @wellerstein.bsky.social shares his initial reactions to these oral histories: www.aip.org/history/well... 🗃️📜

📚Celebrate National Library Week and Right to Read Day with us! This year’s theme is 🌟Find Your Joy 🌟 Learn more at https://bit.ly/43D9Dtw 📷 Mrs. Mendenhall [Susan Allan Marple] reading in garden of hotel in Lugano, Switzerland. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

Digitizing the Legacy of Women in Physics: Genesis Boykin and the Gloria Lubkin Papers www.aip.org/foundation/d... ⚛️ @aiphistory.bsky.social @aip.bsky.social @physicstoday.aip.org

Mostafa El-Sayed (b. 1933 in Zifta, Egypt) is a US Medal of Science laureate known for his work in physical chemistry and nanoscience. He created the El-Sayed rule for phosphorescence and similar phenomena. 📷 Elledw - CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #HistoryofPhysics

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the materials on display at Dr. Elise Crull's Trimble Lecture on Hertha Sponer, including a newly rediscovered lecture transcript! https://bit.ly/3QtxHNb #WomeninSTEM #WomensHistory #HistoryofPhysics 📷 AIP ESVA, Lisa Lisco

Hassan Aref (1950-2011) specialized in fluid mechanics and was the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. 📷 Photograph by Joanne Ford, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, PT Collection. #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #HistoryofPhysics

Astronomer Kent Ford was born #OTD in 1931. He is best known for his pioneering work on imaging tubes for capturing astronomical data electronically, and for his collaborations with Vera Rubin that helped build the case for the existence of Dark Matter. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 Image: Michael Lucibella / APS

In 2023, AIP acquired the records of the long-time editor for Physics Today, Gloria Lubkin. This post takes a look at her seminal trip to China in 1979. https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/into-the-gloria-lubkin-papers-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-her-reporting-in-china-for-physics-today

Omar Yaghi was one of three chemists awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize“for the development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).” (ACA) 📷 Christopher Michel - CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth #HistoryofPhysics

🌈🌈 Here’s your sign to go find a rainbow today🌈🌈 📷 A rainbow over Sir Isaac Newton's home and his famous apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor, England. Photograph by Roy Bishop, Acadia University, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. #NationalFindARainbowDay #HistoryofPhysics #Archives

This is the first English language article about Irina Zaslavskaya, a Ukrainian physicist who bravely protested the KGB in the 1960s and faced dire consequences. https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/who-was-irina-zaslavskaya

To close out Women's History Month, in today's AIP History Weekly Edition we look at The Observatory Pinafore. The satire offers a window into how women's roles at the observatory changed between its writing in 1879 and performance in 1929-30—a remarkable narrative of opportunity and frustration.

A close look at the oral history interviews of chemical engineer Paula Hammond, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez, and physicist Shirley Ann Jackson https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/in-her-own-words-black-women-scientists-reflect-on-meaningful-accomplishments

A little #ThrowbackThursday to Thursday of last week, when we celebrated Women’s History Month with a librarian and archivist-led AIP Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on women in the physical sciences, with special training by Wikimedia DC!

🌟Women in Science Spotlight: Sau Lan Wu 🌟 Sau Lan Wu (1940-) is a Chinese-American particle physicist who played a part in three major discoveries: the charm quark, the gluon, and the Higgs boson. Learn more about her life & accomplishments in spite of growing up in poverty: https://bit.ly/4uwOWwG

What can a person's books tell you about their life? Quite a bit, as it turns out! Check out this blog post on our reflections on processing physicist and historian Sam Schweber's library, which is now part of the AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives: https://www.aip.org/library/a-life-in-books

From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter: Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics www.aip.org/history/arti... 🧪🔭 @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social @aiphistory.bsky.social

🌟Women in Science Spotlight: Vera Kistiakowsky 🌟 Vera Kistiakowsky was a researcher in several branches of chemistry and physics. While working at MIT in the 70s, she got fed up with the way women were treated and formed the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics: https://bit.ly/3PjRPAV

Marie Curie and 71 other women scientists will soon be honored by having their names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. They will join the 72 men whose names are already there. #womeninscience

🌟Women in Science Spotlight: Lucy Mensing 🌟 Lucy Mensing (1901-1996) was the first person to apply quantum mechanics to diatomic molecules. Our new history guide offers an overview of her life and career. https://bit.ly/4tIdCSJ #WomeninSTEM #WomensHistory #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofScience

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, University of Padua PhD student Luca Campagnoni discusses his work with a newly discovered trove of materials related to cosmic ray physicist Bruno Rossi. It sheds new light on Rossi's expedition to Eritrea and his pre-World War II flight from Italy to the US.

Happy birthday to Ida Noddack! Born on February 25, 1896, Noddack was a German chemist who co-discovered the chemical element rhenium and who published a paper on the concept behind nuclear fission - nine years before its accepted discovery date.