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Grants awarded, 2021
Institution Amount Project
Caltech $10,000 Papers of theoretical physicist Robert F. Christy
Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporâena do Brasil $10,000 Papers of physicist José Leite Lopes
US Coast Guard Academy Library $7,000 Digital preservation of and increased access to the Operation Deep Freeze Cruise Reports
Grants awarded, 2020
Institution Amount Project
Center for Jewish History $10,000 Papers of nuclear physicist Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
University of Vienna $10,000 Papers of physicist Erwin Schrödinger
Virginia Tech $10,000 Papers of physicist Robert E. Marshak
Grants awarded, 2019

The 2019 Funding cycle was combined with the 2020 cycle

Grants awarded, 2018
Institution Amount Project
British Library $5,790 Archives of Sir John Houghton, atmospheric physicist
University of Copenhagen $5,790 Development of new and expanded digital photo database
University of Oklahoma $9,173 Jens Rud Nielsen Collection
University of Pittsburgh $9,247 Edward Gerjuoy Papers, Wade Fite Collection, and Van de Graaff Accelerator Collection
Grants awarded, 2017
Institution Amount Project
California Institute of Technology $10,000 Papers of Ronald Drever, one of the founders and designers of LIGO
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives $10,000 Records of the Research Application Laboratory
University of Manchester Library, University Archives Center $10,000 Papers of Czech astronomer Zdeněk Kopal
Grants awarded, 2016
Institution Amount Project
American Philosophical Society $10,000 Papers of Rose Camille LeDieu Mooney-Slater, John A. Wheeler, Geroge T. Reynolds, and the Physics Club of Philadelphia
Carnegie Institution for Science $10,000 Papers of Oliver H. Gish
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility $10,000 Processing of eleven historical collections
Grants awarded, 2015
Institution Amount Project
Centre for Scientific Archives (UK) $10,000 Sir Joseph Rotblat Papers
Museum of Innovation and Science $10,000 General Electric R&D Records
New York University $9,500 Ernst Weber Paper
Grants awarded, 2014
Institution Amount Project
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory $10,000 Leon Lederman Papers
Huntington Library $6,000 Alan Sandage Papers
Johns Hopkins University $3,679 Arthur Davidsen, Gilbert Levin, and David Stern Papers
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility $10,000 Archives and Records Management
Grants awarded, 2013
Institution Amount Project
Centre for Scientific Archives (UK) $10,000 Sir Joseph Rotblat Papers
New York University $10,000 Harold Grad Papers
University of Texas-Austin $10,000 Sir Owen Richardson Papers
Grants awarded, 2012
Institution Amount Project
Johns Hopkins University $10,000 Space Science Telescope Institute records management
National Radio Astronomy Observatory $10,000 Woodruff T. Sullivan III oral histories
Stanford University $10,000 Karl P. Cohen, Martin Packard, and William Shockley papers
Grants awarded, 2011
Institution Amount Project
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Archives $10,000 John D. Linsley Papers
Huntington Library $9,450 Alan Sandage Papers
Lowell Observatory Archives $9,600 William A. Baum Papers
Grants awarded, 2010
Institution Amount Project
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center $10,000 Institutional Records
Stanford University $9,765 Robert Hofstadter Papers
University of Texas $10,000 Herschel Family Papers
Grants awarded, 2009
Institution Amount Project
Cornell University $10,000 Hans Bethe Papers
Schenectady Museum $9,992 General Electric Records
University of Chicago $9,938 David Schramm and Herbert Anderson Papers
Grants awarded, 2008
Institution Amount Project
American Philosophical Society $10,000 John Wheeler Papers
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestial Magnestism $9,400 Instrument Photos
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center $10,000 Institutional Records
Grants awarded, 2007
Institution Amount Project
Canesius College $5,906 Records of Braun Seismograph Station and papers of Rev. J.J.Ruddick, S.J.
California Institute of Technology $8,000 Gerald J. Wasserburg Papers
Johns Hopkins University $10,000 Space Telescope Science Institute Records
St. John's College, Cambridge University $10,000 Sir Fred Hoyle Papers
Grants awarded, 2006
Institution Amount Project
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum $10,000 Institutional Records
David Sarnoff Library $10,000 Vladimir Zworykin and Harry Olson
National Radio Astronomy Observatory $10,000 Institutional Records, 1951-1980
Grants awarded, 2005
Institution Amount Project
California Institute of Technology $7,500 Murray Gell-Mann Papers
National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (UK) $7,500 Sir Jospeh Rotblat Papers
University of California, Berkeley $7,500 Owen Chamberlain Papers
Grants awarded, 2004
Institution Amount Project
University of Chicago $4,995 Additions to John A. Simpson Papers
Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) $5,000 Organize and inventory Physics Department Records
University of Minnesota $5,000 Otto Schmitt Papers
Grants Awarded, 2003
Institution Amount Project
Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences $8,000 V.I. Goldansky, Y.B. Zeldovich, E.K. Zavoisky, B.M. Vul and E.I. Zababakhin Papers
Carnegie Mellon University $8,000 Clifford Shull Papers
National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (UK) $8,000 Sir William McCrea Papers
University of Colorado at Boulder $8,000 William Orr Roberts Papers
Grants Awarded, 2002
Institution Amount Project
American Philosophical Society $10,000 Emanuel Piore Papers
Columbia University $7,105 Columbia Physics Department Papers
Niels Bohr Archive $4,000 Aage Bohr additions
University of Delaware $9,900 Karl Böer Papers
Grants Awarded, 2001
Institution Amount Project
Massachusetts Institute of Technology $9,825 Victor Weisskopf Papers
McMaster University $3,560 Bertram Brockhouse Papers
New Mexico State University $10,000 Clyde Tombaugh Papers
Grants Awarded, 2000
Institution Amount Project
Georgia Tech Research Corporation $5,862 Joseph Ford Papers
National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists (United Kingdom) $10,000 S. Keith Runcorn Papers
National Center for Atmostpheric Research $6,473 Philip D. Thompson Papers
Russian Academy of Science $9,932 Papers of D.I. Blokhintsev, N.N. Bogoliubov, V.I. Goldansky, B.M. Pontekorvo, D.V. Skobeltsyn and Ya B. Zeldovich
University of Aarhus (Denmark) $8,600 Bengt Strömgren Papers
University of Minnesota $10,000 Papers of Alfred O.C. Nier, Phyllis Freier and Edward Ney
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $10,000 Papers of Columbus O'D. Iselin, John B. Hersey, John M. Hunt, Nicholas P. Fofonoff, Raymond B. Montgomery, Charles D. Hollister and William S. von Arx
Grants Awarded, 1999
Institution Amount Project
California Institute of Technology $3,103 Robert Leighton, Robert Walker Papers
Niels Bohr Archive (Denmark) $10,000 Aage Bohr, Allan Mackintosh Papers
Princeton University $10,000 Survey & organize physics collections
Smithsonian Institution Archives $10,000 Riccardo Giacconi Papers
Stanford University (SLAC) $10,000 Burton Richter Papers
University of Alaska, Fairbanks $10,000 Sydney Chapman Papers
University of California, Berkeley $10,000 Exploratorium Records
University of California, San Diego $10,000 Edward Allan Frieman Papers
Grants Awarded, 1998
Institution Amount Project
California Institute of Technology $8,325 William A. Fowler Papers
Russian Academy of Science $9,200 Anatoly Aleksandrov, Yakov Zel'dovich, V.V. Shuleykin, etc. Papers
University of California, Irvine $10,000 Frederick Reines Papers