Spencer R. Weart was the director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics

American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...

 (AIP) from 1971 until his retirement in 2009. Originally trained as a physicist, he is now a historian.

He has produced numerous historical articles, two children’s science books, and written or co-edited seven other books, including:

• Scientists in Power (1979). A history of the rise of nuclear science, weapons, and reactors in France. ISBN 0674795156
• Leo Szilard: His Version of the Facts (1978). Edited correspondence. ISBN 0262690705
• Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (1989) ISBN 0674628365
• Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid State Physics (1991). ISBN 019505329X
• Never at War
  Never at War
  Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another is a book by the historian and physicist Spencer R. Weart published by Yale University Press in 1998...
  
  : Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another (1998). ISBN 0300082983
• The Discovery of Global Warming
  The Discovery of Global Warming
  The Discovery of Global Warming is a book by the physicist and historian Spencer R. Weart published by Harvard University Press in 2003; revised and updated edition, 2008. It traces the history of scientific discoveries that led to the current scientific opinion on climate change.- External links :*...
  
  (2003, 2008). Online version. ISBN 067403189X

While at AIP he also produced and edited an award-winning website with historical exhibits.

External links

• AIP list of Spencer Weart's publications
• History that Matters: Spencer Weart
• History of Physics website with exhibits edited by Spencer Weart
• Bright Idea: The First Lasers (laser history; text by Spencer Weart)