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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland, but the institute also has offices in Melville, New York, and Beijing.
== Historical overview == The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during the Great Depression. The AIP was founded in 1931 at a joint meeting between four physics societies: the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Society of Rheology. These were soon joined by the American Association of Physics Teachers, for a total of five societies. It formally incorporated in 1932 consisting of five original "member societies", and a total of four thousand members. As soon as the AIP was established it began publishing scientific journals. By 1943, the AIP published eight journals: Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, American Journal of Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Applied Physics, and Journal of Chemical Physics. A new set of member societies was added beginning in the mid-1960s. The organization restructured in 2013, creating a new subsidiary, AIP Publishing LLC, to manage physical publications of its journals with a smaller board.
== Member societies ==
== Affiliated societies ==
== List of publications ==
The AIP has a subsidiary called AIP Publishing (wholly owned non-profit) dedicated to scholarly publishing by the AIP and its member societies, as well on behalf of other partners.
== AIP style ==
AIP created a manual of style first introduced in 1951, called AIP style, which also includes the AIP citation format. It is the most commonly used style and citation format in physics publications.
== See also == Institute of Physics PACS Science Writing Award SPIE Joan Warnow-Blewett
== References ==
== External links == AIP website Member societies of the AIP AIP journals AIP Scitation website, which host academic articles of journals published by societies members of AIP, and by societies who decided to host their articles on the platform American Center for Physics website
=== Archival collections ===
==== Niels Bohr Library & Archives ==== American Center for Physics Board of Directors records of Bernard Khoury, 1990–2005 American Center for Physics Board of Directors records of Bernard Khoury, 2005–2009 AIP News Services Division Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science (DBIS) master tapes [videorecording], 1999–2011 AIP Advertising Division records of Edward P. Tober, 1956–1975 AIP Career Services miscellaneous publications, 1960–1998 AIP Center for History of Physics History of Physicists in Industry records, 2003–2008 AIP Center for History of Physics miscellaneous publications, 1963–2017 AIP Office of the Director Van Zandt Williams records, 1964–1966 AIP Physics Resources Center records of James Stith, 1987–2009 AIP Office of the Director records of Kenneth Ford, 1979–1994 AIP Office of the Director H. William Koch and Kenneth W. Ford records, 1966–1992