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From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter:
Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory
by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics
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It can sometimes feel like the history of the physical sciences is on its back foot. The AIP History Weekly Edition set out to show that, globally, there's so much going on that you can talk about it weekly and not get to everything. Here's some of what we couldn't get to in 2025. #histsci
My textbook on SETI is published!
I hope you like it!
Please see if your libraries offer a free download—mine does!
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In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at a new issue of Centaurus examining what is and is not distinctive about the new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy.
📷IceCube Laboratory and South Pole Telescope, Moreno Baricevic, IceCube / NSF.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we look at recent articles by @rhiggitt.bsky.social and Yuto Ishibashi, which show how record-keeping, history, and institutional governance intertwined during the centuries-long evolution of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social looks at Eun-Joo Ahn's recent @hsnatsci.bsky.social article on how perilous road construction in the San Gabriel Mtns, undertaken by immigrant Japanese laborers, made Mount Wilson Observatory possible.
📷 from Huntington Library.
