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IOP celebrates launch of Technician Commitment action plan
18 June 2019
The IOP celebrates becoming the first official supporter of the Technician Commitment outside of the higher education sector coupled with the launch of its Technician Commitment action plan. The Technician Commitment aims to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines. Read more on our beta site.
IOP members receive Queen’s birthday honours
14 June 2019
Five Institute of Physics members have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours list. Read more on our beta site.
Government invests £153 million in UK’s quantum technologies
14 June 2019
Government has today announced it will invest £153 million into the National Quantum Technologies Programme.
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25 June
1997 An unmanned Russian freighter spacecraft collides with Mir; one of the space station’s modules is left permanently depressurised and its solar panels have to be removed with a fire axe
- 1894 Birth of Hermann Oberth, the pioneer of rocket propulsion
- 1907 Birth of J Hans D Jensen, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with Maria Göppert-Mayer for their nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus
- 1928 Birth of Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for their “pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
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Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
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10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
