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Purchase of the 24-acre site off Kenilworth Avenue in Prince George's County, Maryland, was completed in the summer of 1992, with the ground breaking taking place July 1992. Staff began working on October 25, 1993. April 24, 1994 marked the official dedication of the American Center for Physics. College Park affords a location close to Washington D.C., and adjacent to the University of Maryland, one of the nation's leading research universities. The wooded site provides a campus-like setting only a short walk from the College Park station of Washington's Metro subway system.
In addition to the many societies housed within the facility, American Center for Physics is home to the Niels Bohr Library, which is one of the country's largest collections of material on the history of physics. The library contains some 1,000 transcribed and indexed interviews with physicists such as Niels Bohr, S. Chandrasekar, Richard Feynman, and Robert Oppenheimer while the library's Emilio Segre Visual Archives includes over 20,000 physics related photographs.
The American Center for Physics provides a focal point for the physics community, increases the community's interactions with government decision makers, and serves as a resource for scientists, educators, and the public.
ACP Societies
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American Institute of Physics |
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American Physical Society |
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American Association of Physics Teachers |
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American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
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