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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 29/07/2026

K. Renee Horton is a physicist and engineer living with hearing loss whose career spans materials science, physics, aerospace, and advocacy for disability inclusion in STEM. 📷 NASA - Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons. #DisabilityPrideMonth #BlackInSTEM #AccessibilityInScience

Portrait of K. Renee Horton standing in front of a giant warehouse at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 14/07/2026

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

Informal portrait of Carl Rouse and his wife, Lorraine, sitting outside their Del Mar home.

Portrait of Carl Rouse at the computer in his home office, which connects to the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 10/07/2026

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: bit.ly/4h6fy3m

Informal portrait of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin at an International Union of Crystallography conference.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 08/07/2026

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

Informal portrait of astronomer Wanda Diaz-Merced. She holds a white cane.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 03/07/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 01/07/2026

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

Chanda Prescod Weinstein speaks at the AAS 241st annual meeting.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 26/06/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 26/06/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 26/05/2026

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

This black and white image features Robert Oppenheimer standing in a field next to a horse named Crisis. Oppenheimer is adjusting the horse's hoof. The photo is labeled circa 1940 with a caption stating, "a stallion no one but Robert could ride."

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 21/05/2026

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

Black and white photo of two men seated indoors, sipping tea

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 20/05/2026

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: history.aip.org/ead/20250576.html

A large table covered with numerous documents and papers, situated in a carpeted office space. In the background, there are two patterned chairs, a desk with a computer, and a large scanner.

A close-up of a letter from the American Institute of Physics dated August 12, 1970. The letter is addressed to Mr. Glassbrenner and is from Valerie Villano, Placement Service. It mentions an attached copy of the "Summary of Academic Openings" for August and humorously refers to previous requests not having a summary list.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 30/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 28/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 24/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 22/04/2026

“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 bit.ly/4cnFjcV

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 20/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 15/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 10/04/2026

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! bit.ly/3QtxHNb #WomeninSTEM #WomensHistory #HistoryofPhysics 📷 AIP ESVA, Lisa Lisco

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 09/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 06/04/2026

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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 03/04/2026

🌈🌈 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

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 19/03/2026

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!

Four people sitting at a desk and smiling at the camera

Three people presenting in front of a screen

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 02/03/2026

🌟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. bit.ly/4tIdCSJ #WomeninSTEM #WomensHistory #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofScience

📷 German physicist Lucy Mensing, seated, facing the camera, circa 1928. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Mensing Collection, Gift of Dr. Dorothea Roloff

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 25/02/2026

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.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 24/02/2026

📢The Ronald E. Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists is now online!📢 Learn more and explore some of the highlights in our blog: bit.ly/3OgugIL 📷 Ronald McNair/NASA.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 17/02/2026

#DYK the Summer School at Les Houches in the French Alps has hosted 68 Nobel laureate since its inception by Cécile DeWitt-Morette (pictured here) in 1951? One of those noble students was Enrico Fermi, who took quite the field trip in 1954. bit.ly/3O73uTj #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofScience

Victor Weisskopf (left) and Cécile DeWitt-Morette (right) sit outdoors conversing among students on a meadow at the Summer School in Les Houches, France. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 13/02/2026

💗 Happy Valentine’s Day to all lovers of physics and physicists! 💗 📷 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie on their honeymoon, cycling through Europe in 1895. Photo from Laboratoire Curie, Institut de Physique Nucleaire, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 02/02/2026

📜 News, archival collections, statistics, suggestions of people to study, books, and more, in one place, curated by historians & librarians? You bet! If you’re researching Black physicists, past and present, check out our guide: aip.libguides.com/blackandafricanam…

A Black woman stands at a blackboard full of equations, teaching. There is a computer in the foreground. The image is in black and white.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 30/01/2026

#HBD to our visual archives’ namesake, Emilio Segrè! 🎂 Learn more about his life and collection in our blog post: bit.ly/4pR7i80 📷AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Segrè Collection.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 21/01/2026

#OTD in 2009, Steven Chu was sworn in as the Sec. of Energy for the Obama admin. and became the first Nobel Laureate to join the Cabinet. He was also the first physicist to be named Energy Secretary. See our 2021 oral history with Dr. Chu: bit.ly/3NoqVXF 📷AIP ESVA, Physics Today Collection

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 20/01/2026

#FoundInTheArchives 🔍😂 Samuel Goudsmit attests to his good character - he has never been sent to jail (“too clever for the cops”), he has no debts (“nobody loans me anything”), he is not habitually drunk (“I can stand an awful lot”), and he doesn’t own a harem (“ask my wife why”).

Typewritten letter from Samuel Goudsmit to J. H. Van Vleck asking for a letter of recommendation.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 08/01/2026

Today is Stephen Hawking's birthday. His papers are at Cambridge University, where they are recovering data from floppy disks💾 We interviewed Leontien Talboom, who works on that project: bit.ly/48OFnk9 📷 The Franklin Institute, courtesy AIP ESVA, PT Collection. #HistoryofScience #Archives

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 06/01/2026

2026 energy 👢💅🏇 📷 Edwin Krupp, now Director of the Griffith Observatory, at Zoser's Step Pyramid in Saqqara, Egypt, 1978. Robin Rector Krupp, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. #HistoryofScience #Libraries #SpecialCollections

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 12/12/2025

It’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed – all 12 Taylor Swift albums reimagined as images from the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Check out the full blog post, then comment below to tell us what pop culture reference you’d like to see next! bit.ly/495i71g #ESVA #HistoryofScience

Elfriede Segrè leans out of a car door to look at two bears nearby. The word Fearless is written across the bottom of the photo to appear as a Taylor Swift album cover.

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AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives @history.aip.org · 08/12/2025

Check out our blog to see even more photos of the amazing women in Olivia Campbell's recent book "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History." bit.ly/4rzo0uM #WomeninSTEM #PhysicsHistory #Archives

Hedwig Kohn (back row, on left) possibly with family or on a school trip enjoying a sunny day at the beach with cliffs in the background. 1911

A historical black-and-white photo of a group of people, including Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, and Hertha Sponer on the far right, standing in front of Göttingen Institute. Some are dressed in suits, while others are in more casual attire, and they display a range of expressions and poses.

Group photo of the physicists featuring Niels Bohr at a “Bonzenfreie Kolloquium” (which translates to “Colloquium Without Bigwigs”) organized for him by Lise Meitner in Dahlem near Berlin, Germany. Left to right: Otto Stern, Wilhelm Lenz, James Franck, Rudolph Ladenburg, Paul Knipping, Niels Bohr, Ernst Wagner, Otto von Baeyer, Otto Hahn, George de Hevesy, Lise Meitner (only woman), Wilhelm Westphal, Hans Geiger, Gustav Hertz and Peter Pringsheim.

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