Resources in Physics

People

Directories

• High Energy Physics (HEP) Virtual Phonebook - from HEPIC (High Energy Physics Information Center)
• PEERS - Email directory of physicists sponsored by the Institute of Physics (IoP)
• HEPnames database - from SPIRES (Stanford Public Information REtrieval System)

Biographies

• Albert Einstein Online
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (from UCLA)
• Einstein Archives Online
• Emilio Segre Visual Archives - searchable archive of more than 25,000 photographs of 20th century physicists and astronomers.
• The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences (from Pinceton University)
• Famous Physicists Links (from Yahoo)
• NASA Quest Biography search and Women of NASA
• Nobel Laureates in Physics (from Stanford University) see also Nobel e-Museum (the official website of the Nobel Foundation)

Professional Societies                                                          Return to Menu 

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• European Physical Society (EPS)
• Institute of  Physics (IoP)
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
• International Association of Mathematical Physics
• International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• American Association for Physicists in Medicine
• Lists of Physics Organizations and Associations:
  • Directory of Physics Associations (from Google)
  • Directory of Minority Groups in Physics (from APS)
  • Scholarly Societies List - Physics (University of Waterloo)

Conferences                                                                        Return to Menu 

• Conferences (from the University of Maryland; includes categories for particles and nuclei, quantum, condensed matter, etc.)
• Conferences -- Schools -- Workshops  (maintained by HEPIC)
• Directory of Physics Conferences (from Google)
• IOP Institute Events Calendar
• PhysicsWeb Events
• SPIRES Conferences Database

Institutions                                                                           Return to Menu 

• CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)
• Physics Departments Worldwide
• US Department of Energy (DOE)
  • DOE National Labs and Offices
• US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
• US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Reference                                                                             Return to Menu 

History:

• Center for the History of Physics (from AIP)
• This Month in History (from APS)
• Einstein Archives Online
• History of Physics and Astronomy (from PhysLink)
• Physics Success Stories (from AIP)

Education Resources:

• Particle Physics Education Sites and the Particle Adventure (from PDG)
• Higher Education Academy - Physical Sciences Centre
• Educational Physics Resources (from PhysNet)
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide - includes reviews
• World of Physics Online Dictionary (from Wolfram Research)

Physical Constants and Reference Tables:

• Physics Laboratory Physical Reference Data (from NIST)
  • NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty (including CODATA Fundamental Constants, International System of Units, and Uncertainty of Measurement Results)
• Exact Time (from US Naval Observatory)
• Martindale's Virtual Physics Center
• Physics Astronomy Classification Scheme - PACS (from APS)
• SLACSpeak - glossary and HEP acronyms
• Table of the Nuclides (from KAERI)

Publications                                                                          Return to Menu 

Books and Journals

• PAM Member Libraries Recent Acquisitions Lists
• All that JAS:  Journal Abbreviation Sources in Physics
• Core List of Astronomy and Physics Journals
• DirectTextbook: Physics Textbooks
• Astrophysical Data System (ADS) Digital Library
• Science Book Guide

Preprint Servers and E-journals

• ADS (Astrophysical Data System)
• arXiv.org e-print archive (or choose from mirror sites)
  Subscribe to arXiv RSS feeds
• CERN Document Server (CDS)
• DOE Information Bridge (DOE research reports: 1996-)
• E-print Network (from OSTI and DOE)
• Free Full Text Physics Journals Maintained by PhysNet
• GrayLIT Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports
• HEP Newsletters and Journals (from HEPIC)
• IOP Physics Reviews
• SPIRES HEP Literature Database (from SLAC)

Physics News                                                                      Return to Menu 

• AIP Bulletin of Physics News
  • Subscribe to Bulletin of Physics News listserv
• Institute of Physics News - View additional RSS feeds available from IoP
• Energy Science News (from the U.S. Department of Energy)
• Forum on Physics and Society (from APS)
  • Physics and Society Newsletter Archive
• FYI - science policy news (from AIP)
  • Subscribe to FYI listserv
• Matter and Energy News Headlines (from Science Daily)
• NASA Breaking News
• Physics and Public Policy (from IoP)
• Physics News (from Google)
• Physics Today (from AIP)
• PhysicsWeb News (from IoP)
• PhysOrg

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Internet Resources in Physics - Pathfinders, Metasites, and Directories
                                                                                                  

• Physics Central
• PhysicsWeb
• PhysNet The worldwide Physics Departments and Documents Network
• Physical Sciences Resource Center (American Association of Physics Teachers)
• PhysLINK
• Physics Related Resources on the Internet (APS)
• PSIGate, Physics Gateway - searchable, annotated portal for physics web resources (from Research Discovery Network, UK)
  • Internet Physicist tutorial
• Online Particle Physics Information (SLAC)
• Optics and Photonics Online Resource Centre
  
• Yahoo Physics Page
• Google Physics Page

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Corrections, changes and suggestions to:

Paige Lucas-Stannard
NASA Glenn Research Center
Paige.C.Lucas-stannard@nasa.gov

Page last updated: September 2005