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6 December 2018

Professor Jim Al-Khalili chairs discussion on ‘Making Artificial Intelligence a Reality’

Festival of Physics
A day of talks and workshops at the University of Exeter on 8 December 2018.

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Anthony Waterhouse Fellowship
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Rugby meeting
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual Rugby meeting.

LSE Events Autumn 2018
Events for the coming autumn for the LSE branch.

The Business Innovation Awards
A reception to celebrate the winners will be held at the Palace of Westminster on 16 October 2018.

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

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