American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP ) is an American professional organization. It was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in College Park (Maryland).
Member companies
- Acoustical Society of America
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- American Astronomical Society
- American Crystallographic Association
- American Geophysical Union
- American Physical Society
- AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
- Optical Society of America
- The Society of Rheology
Publications
- Applied Physics Letters
- Chaos
- Geochemical Transactions
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal of Physical & Chemical Reference Data
- Low Temperature Physics
- Physics of Fluids
- Physics of Plasmas
- Physics Today
- Review of Scientific Instruments
Prices
The AIP awards annually since 1968, the Science Writing Award for Scientists and journalists who have rendered outstanding services to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Known laureates, scientists are Kip Thorne (1969, 1994), Steven Weinberg (1977 ), Heinz Pagels (1982 ), Abraham Pais (1983 ), Martin Rees (1996 ), Leonard Susskind (1998 ), John Archibald Wheeler (1999), Charles H. Townes (2000 ) Lawrence Krauss (2002 ), Simon Singh (2006 ) and James Trefil ( 2007) and the Science authors Martin Gardner (1983 ), Richard Preston (1988) and KC Cole ( 1996).