Center for History of Physics
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[edit] Address and Contact Info:
Address: American Institute of Physics, 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3843
Phone: (301) 209-3165
Fax: (301) 209-0882
E-mail: chp@aip.org; photos@aip.org (Photo Collection)
Web page: http://www.aip.org/history
Online Finding Aid:
Archivists (principal contacts for advice on the collection):
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[edit] Collection Summary
The center’s library is the Niels Bohr Library. Holdings include: the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, comprising some 30,000 portraits and other historical photographs, drawings, and film and video clips; an extensive collection of books related to physics; more than 200 archival and manuscript collections; tape-recorded materials, including some 1,000 recordings of reminiscences and a large collection of oral history interviews; hundreds of manuscript autobiographies and unpublished histories of physics institutions, and much else.
The International Catalog of Sources (ICOS) is also maintained in the Niels Bohr Library. The ICOS contains records for unpublished source materials in the Niels Bohr Library archives and over 700 other repositories worldwide. The period of interest is chiefly from about 1890 to the present, but the ICOS also contains information on 19th-century collections of interest, and even earlier ones of major importance. In addition to collections that are in libraries and archives, the ICOS has information on papers in private hands (especially if they are available for research use) and information on papers of significant scientists that have been destroyed. The library also maintains the Physics History Finding Aids web site, which provides access to finding aids for more than 100 collections at 12 major science archives.
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