There’s just something about chalkboards. They have a long history in the United States; their first documented use was in 1801, while whiteboards have only been around since the 1980s. Chalk is ...

Here at the American Institute of Physics, we are proud of our oral history interview collection. We have the vast majority of our transcripts online, which is somewhat unusual in the world of oral ...

I am delighted to continue our author interview series with this conversation with sociologist Janet Vertesi. The goal for this interview series is to connect with researchers who are publishing ...

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Victor McCrary is the Vice President for Research and Graduate Programs at the University of the District of Columbia. He has held equivalent research executive at the University of Tennessee, ...

A finding aid is a tool created by records professionals to give information about the contents of archival collections. Finding aids provide detailed inventories to help researchers locate relevant ...

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Founded in 1962, The History Programs mission is to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and its allied fields through our two joint programs. A core component of AIP’s overall ...

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On Jan. 27, 1967, fire broke out at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34. Fueled by an exhaustive and fast-burning oxygen-rich atmosphere, the Apollo 1 command capsule ignited from the ...