Have you ever wondered what famous laws of physics looked like when they were first published? They often looked quite different, and some were even encoded as anagrams: https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/introducing-laws-of-physics

Fearless (2008) "My first instinct upon meeting bears in the wild would be to lock the doors and drive away, but the Segrès were built different—Emilio got out of the car to take a picture while Elfriede (who was pregnant) leaned out the door to say hi to the bears. Head first, fearless." 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳

It’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed – all 12 Taylor Swift albums reimagined as images from the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Check out the full blog post, then comment below to tell us what pop culture reference you’d like to see next! https://bit.ly/495i71g
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Our latest blog post is all about floppy disks!

I love these photos. And I love that there are so many of Hedwig. She's so adorable.

Check out our blog to see even more photos of the amazing women in Olivia Campbell's recent book "Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History." https://bit.ly/4rzo0uM
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In 1969, @physicstoday.bsky.social asked readers to help identify a 1932 APS banquet photo. The replies—annotated copies, letters, stories—became part of AIP’s archives. I wrote about what this early “crowdsourcing” effort tells us about collective memory in science. www.aip.org/library/ex-l...