Records (Subgroup II), 1943-1989.

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Records (Subgroup II), 1943-1989.

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Proceedings; bulletins; presidential addresses; correspondence; ledgers; scrapbooks; committee minutes; nominations and elections; awards; subject files. Records of the American Physical Society (APS) include the council minutes of the Society (1899-1988), with some summaries, and early copies of the Bulletins (1899-1902) which contain constitutions and bylaws, programs of meetings, membership lists, and some published proceedings. Also includes selected ledgers (seven items, 1919-1956); seven scrapbooks (1916-1962, 1967-1969) containing program announcements, ballots, and membership forms; audiovisual material from the 1978 annual meeting; and photocopies of published presidential addresses from 1899. The 1993 addition to the APS records includes Executive Committee and Council correspondence (ca. 1961-1981); correspondents include W. W. Havens (executive secretary), S. A. Goudsmit (editor-in-chief), and J. A. Burton (treasurer). Also material from many APS committees including: the character of APS Meetings (1960s), awards, education, (1970s), minorities (1970s and 1980s), nominations (1958-1985), professional concerns (1970s), program (1960s-1980s), publications (1960s and 1970s), Congressional Fellowship (1970s), and women in physics (1970s). Subjects covered in files include: Soviet physicists, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) (1971-1985), Committee of Scientific Society Presidents (1975-1983), National Research Council (1966-1986), Visiting Physicists Program (1974-1980), and the American Institute of Physics (1958-1982).

54 linear feet (54 boxes).

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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American Institute of Physics

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Physicist. High Energy Radiation Section, National Bureau of Standards, 1949-1962; Chief, Radiation Physics Division, 1962-1966; Director, American Institute of Physics, 1966-1986. From the description of The story of the American Institute of Physics, 1967-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305950 The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffus...

American physical society

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National Research Council (U.S.)

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International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

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Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

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Havens, William W. 1920-

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