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| Abbreviation | AIP |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1931 |
| Type | 501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership corporation[1] |
| Purpose | Promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.[1] |
| Headquarters | American Center for Physics (ACP) |
| Location |
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| Membership | 120,000 scientists, engineers, educators, and students[1] |
CEO | Michael H. Moloney |
| Budget | 75 millionUSD[2] |
| Website | www |
TheAmerican 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 inCollege Park, Maryland, but the institute also has offices inMelville, New York, andBeijing.[1]
The AIP was founded in 1931 as a response to lack of funding for the sciences during theGreat Depression.[3] The AIP was founded in 1931 at a joint meeting between four physics societies: theAmerican Physical Society, theOptical Society of America, theAcoustical Society of America, and theSociety of Rheology. These were soon joined by theAmerican Association of Physics Teachers, for a total of five societies.[4] 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.[5] 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, andJournal of Chemical Physics.[4]
A new set of member societies was added beginning in the mid-1960s.[5]
The organization restructured in 2013, creating a new subsidiary,AIP Publishing LLC, to manage physical publications of its journals with a smaller board.[6]
The AIP has a subsidiary calledAIP Publishing (wholly owned non-profit) dedicated to scholarly publishing by the AIP and its member societies, as well on behalf of other partners.[7]
AIP created amanual of style first introduced in 1951, calledAIP style, which also includes theAIP citation format.[8] It is the most commonly used style and citation format in physics publications.[9][10][11]