The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has confirmed a $1 million pledge to the University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) to help uncover stories of scientific discovery while illuminating complex societal issues that scientists and scholars in the humanities both face.
The gift will establish an endowed professorship in the history of natural sciences and support the appointee’s humanistic and scientific research and scholarship through a partnership with AIP’s Center for History of Physics. Collaborations with AIP staff and Members Societies will encourage deeper insight into the nature and origin of the physical sciences and their impacts on society.
In addition to collaborating with AIP on conferences and public lectures, the appointee will have access to AIP’s Niels Bohr Library and Archives, as well as the recently acquired Wenner Collection of rare books and manuscripts that contains nearly 4,000 books and publications documenting the important discoveries in physics and physical sciences going back 500 years.
The Wenner Collection is still being catalogued and integrated into the other treasures held at AIP’s Niels Bohr Library and Archive, but AIP hopes the appointee will contribute to new ways of thinking about the collections.
A search is under way for a senior scholar to assume the professorship in fall 2019.
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