American Institute of Physics

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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a professional body representing American physicists and publishing physics related journals. It was founded in 1931.

The aims of the organization are: "promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare".

The AIP acts as an umbrella body with its members being other physics-related societies.

Contents 1 Member Societies 2 List of Publications 3 See also 4 External link

[edit] Member Societies

• American Physical Society
• Optical Society of America
• Acoustical Society of America
• The Society of Rheology
• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Crystallographic Association
• American Astronomical Society
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
• American Geophysical Union

[edit] List of Publications

• Applied Physics Letters
• History of Physics Newsletter, AIP Center for History of Physics.
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Journal of Physical & Chemical Reference Data
• Chaos
• Geochemical Transactions
• Low Temperature Physics
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas
• Physics Today (magazine) [1]
• Review of Scientific Instruments

[edit] See also

• Academic conferences

[edit] External link

• AIP web site