Physicist political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

$2,433,676 as the Physicist–2012 headline

Physicist in 2012 is $2,433,676 on 992 itemized lines from 335 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2012 is a large slice of the Physicist occupation dollars: 24.4% of $9,957,534 falls in this cycle ($2,433,676). That share is a cycle weight, not a claim that Physicist giving peaked for a stated reason. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

992 contributions from 335 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 335 people still used that title after 2012.

This page is not a restatement of the Physicist hub or of the 2012 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,433,676.

Physicist across cycles versus this 2012 slice

Filers who typed physicist produced the all-cycle occupation total of $9,957,534. PHYSICIST is the occupation string. Scientist or professor of physics, if typed that way, sit elsewhere. The join does not verify degrees, DOE clearances, or academic appointments. The occupation is not an APS membership roll, a national-lab payroll, or a physics PAC.

Physicist itemization inside the 2012 FEC window

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Physicist. $2,433,676 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

992 contributions from 335 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,433,676, 992, and 335 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,433,676. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,433,676. Three numbers define the Physicist × 2012 cell: dollars $2,433,676, contribution rows 992, unique donors 335. Share of occupation dollars is 24.4% of $9,957,534.

Occupation plus cycle is not causation

Matching Physicist with 2012 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Physicist donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an APS membership roll, a national-lab payroll, or a physics PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. PHYSICIST is the occupation string. Scientist or professor of physics, if typed that way, sit elsewhere. The join does not verify degrees, DOE clearances, or academic appointments. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Physicist donations hub is $9,957,534; the 2012 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Physicist and 2012 pages

Physicist donations holds the $9,957,534 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Physicist. All occupations places PHYSICIST beside other titles without merging sibling strings (SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, and PROFESSOR). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,433,676 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Physicist dollars ($9,957,534). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,433,676, 992 contributions, 335 donors, 24.4% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Physicist donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep PHYSICIST as the occupation key and 2012 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,433,676.

PHYSICIST spelling and 2012

The occupation key is PHYSICIST as stored. Nearby spellings (SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, and PROFESSOR) are not recoded into this join. 2012 is the cycle key. Those two keys yield $2,433,676.

If a later FEC extract restates itemized receipts, the Commission filing controls. This snapshot is the occupation-cycle pair Physicist × 2012: 992 contributions, 335 donors, $2,433,676. Sibling strings (SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, and PROFESSOR) remain outside $2,433,676. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,433,676.

Questions

How much did Physicist donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation PHYSICIST in the 2012 cycle total $2,433,676, from 992 contributions and 335 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Physicist-coded receipts are $9,957,534. 2012 is 24.4% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Physicist 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,433,676 or in the $9,957,534 occupation figure used here. It counts itemized contributors who typed PHYSICIST, not APS members or employed physicists as a class. The 2012 join is $2,433,676 from 992 contributions and 335 donors.

Does this count every physicist?

No. It counts itemized contributors who typed PHYSICIST, not APS members or employed physicists as a class. The 2012 cycle filter on Physicist is $2,433,676, 992 contributions, and 335 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $9,957,534. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 992 Physicist contributions and 335 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 992 itemized contributions from 335 donors totaling $2,433,676. 992 contributions from 335 donors means repeated itemization is common in this cycle filter, not a one-gift-per-person table. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.