IUPAPs aktiviteter inkluderer internationale møder, publikation, promovering af [[forskning]] og [[uddannelse]], støtte [[fysiker]]es frie bevægelighed,<ref name="Kerwin1973">{{cite journal |last1=Kerwin |first1=Larkin |title=IUPAP on freedom |journal=Physics Today |volume=26 |issue=12 |year=1973 |pages=11 |issn=0031-9228 |doi=10.1063/1.3128352|bibcode=1973PhT....26l..11K }}</ref><ref name="Davis1972">{{cite journal |last1=Davis |first1=Harold L. |title=IUPAP–A union for all physicists |journal=Physics Today |volume=25 |issue=9 |year=1972 |pages=88 |issn=0031-9228 |doi=10.1063/1.3071031|bibcode=1972PhT....25i..88D }}</ref> promovere internationale standarder,<ref name="Fleuryde Boer1962">{{cite journal |last1=Fleury |first1=P. |last2=de Boer |first2=J. |title=Symbols units and nomenclature in physics |journal=Physics Today |volume=15 |issue=6 |year=1962 |pages=20–30 |issn=0031-9228 |doi=10.1063/1.3058223|bibcode=1962PhT....15f..20F }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=IUPAP handbook on symbols and units |journal=Physics Today |volume=35 |issue=9 |year=1982 |pages=21 |issn=0031-9228 |doi=10.1063/1.2915257|bibcode=1982PhT....35i..21. }}</ref> og tværfagligt samarbejde med andre organisationar.<ref name="BacherHavens1972">{{cite journal |last1=Bacher |first1=Robert F. |last2=Havens |first2=William W. |last3=Koch |first3=H. William |last4=Marshak |first4=Robert E. |last5=Seitz |first5=Frederick |title=IUPAP–Past and future|journal=Physics Today |volume=25 |issue=9 |year=1972 |pages=23–28 |issn=0031-9228 |doi=10.1063/1.3070995|bibcode=1972PhT....25i..23B }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://iupap.org/about-us/ |website=IUPAP |title=About Us}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Soviet Oppression: IUPAP Retaliates |journal=Nature |volume=245 |issue=5419 |year=1973 |pages=3 |issn=0028-0836 |doi=10.1038/245003b0|bibcode=1973Natur.245R...3. |s2cid=38836278 }}</ref>
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