  The Institute for Physical Science and Technology at the University of
Maryland was founded in 1976 from a merger of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics
and Applied Mathematics (IFDAM) and the Institute for Molecular Physics (IMP),
which were established at the College Park Campus after World War II to enhance
the expertise of the University of Maryland in some areas of science and
technology of interest to the US Department of Defense. Here I try to
reconstruct the history of the Institute for Molecular Physics at the
University of Maryland.
