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Phillips Awards for distinguished service to the IOP go to Brian Fulton and Mark Telling
13 December 2016
Professor Brian Fulton and Dr Mark Telling have both been presented with the2016 Phillips Award for distinguished service to the IOP
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Solar Energy public lecture
at Huddersfield University on 14 December
ICWIP 2017 (be a member of the UK team)
Be a member of the UK team at the International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP) 16-20 July 2017, University of Birmingham, UK
Magnestism 2017
Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2017
Low Temperature Techniques Course
Provisional programme available
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Winter newsletter now available from the Computational Physics Group
Group Prize final
and keynote talk by Graham Farmelo
Venue update for talks on 23 Nov, 7 Dec and 11 Jan
The branch's calendar has been updated with the venues
TalkPhysics Webinar: Static Electricity
The IOP's Dave Cotton shares his top five static electricity demonstrations for physics teachers
UK Quantum Dot Day 2017
Registration deadline: 4 January 2017
Festival of Physics
at University of Exeter
14 December
- 1900 Max Planck presents a derivation of his blackbody radiation law, based on quantum mechanics, to the German Physical Society
- 1962 The spacecraft Mariner 2 becomes the first to fly past Venus
- 1972 The final moonwalk is completed, having begun the previous day
- 1546 Birth of astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his planetary observations – and his metal nose. Brahe’s data were used by Johannes Kepler in his discovery of the laws of planetary motion
- 1922 Birth of Nikolay Basov, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for work leading to the development of the laser
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
