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

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

Pride Month Book Recommendations

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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

Standing down the International Catalog of Sources

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⚽ 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

Field Theory: The Soccer Careers of the Bohr Brothers

June Photos of the Month

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📚🌌 “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

The Power of Oral Histories

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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

Frank Kameny the astronomer

The famed gay rights leader and accomplished scientist was one of thousands of US government employees who lost their livelihoods during the Lavender Scare.

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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

Museum Tour

Some of the coolest virtual museums on the Internet

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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...

Illuminating the Invisible: Shohini Ghose on Women Who Transformed Our View of the Cosmos

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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

Illuminating the Invisible: Shohini Ghose on Women Who Transformed Our View of the Cosmos

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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...

Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Reading Recommendations

NBLA Celebrates AAPI Month

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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...

Oppenheimer reflects on his early career

Interviews now available to the public bring the famed physicist’s lesser-known early years to life.

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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

Preservation Week: A Reflection on Interviewing Early-Career Women Physicists

The theme for this year’s preservation week is Is This Thing On?: Preserving Memory and Building Archives and focuses on documenting personal memories and narratives. Explore the work that goes into o...

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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

The Future of Archives of Science: An Interview with Polina Ilieva

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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

Colonial Calcutta as a Nexus of Scientific Development

Part 1 of a 2-part series on South Asian scientists for the April Photos of the Month

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“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... 🗃️📜

The AIP Oppenheimer interviews: An expert perspective

AIP History Weekly Edition: April 17, 2026

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📚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.