Industrial Physicists

This award recognizes physicists in industrial and other non-academic careers and support them in delivering a series of engaging lectures about their careers.

This prize recognizes outstanding work by physicists combining original research accomplishments with leadership in the management of research or development in industry.

This fellowship enables scientists to broaden their experience through direct involvement with the legislative and political processes.

In partnership with the American Institute of Physics, a federation of physical science societies, APS asked the APS Industrial Physics Advisory Board to organize a study on the impact of U.S. industrial physics and to issue its findings in a publicly available report.

Physics has been a prime mover of industrial development in the United States for over 100 years. Physicists in industry have made possible the technological advances of modern products that make our lives safer, better, and easier as well as improving the security and infrastructure of our nation. In many ways, industrial physics is responsible for the creation of the modern age.

The creation of economic value from research knowledge has moved from the province of vertically integrated firms to loose global consortia. Research projects and their funding have gone global, with contributors from all over the world working together via the Internet. Trained technical manpower has become globally available and plentiful, as has the capital for commercially oriented R&D projects.