IUPAP History Project

Globalizing Physics

One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

Edited by Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro

Articulates key historical information regarding an international institution (IUPAP) following its centenary

Provides a fresh insight into the role of international scientific societies during the Cold War

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence


The IUCHPP is assisting the IUPAP Executive Council with the project entitled “One Hundred Years of IUPAP: A History” under the direction of Roberto Lalli and  Jaume Navarro. The project involves the digitization of institutional archival documents of the Union. This implies an important effort given that the documents are currently spread in various archives. The digitized documents will be made available for historical research and will constitute the primary source of information for a scholarly process, which will be concluded by a two-day academic workshop on the history of IUPAP in the last hundred years and the publication of a book.

More information on the IUPAP website