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IOP awards for 2018 include Isaac Newton Medal and Prize for Paul Corkum
11 July 2018
Canadian physicist Professor Paul Corkum has been awarded the IOP’s Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – its highest accolade and one of 22 IOP awards to physicists announced today.
Postdoc wins Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize
10 July 2018
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Photon 2018
The full programme is available online
BRSG Christmas Meeting 2018
Website now live.
Rugby meeting
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual Rugby meeting.
Women Physicists in the Nuclear Industry One Day Event
Organised by the IOP Nuclear Industry Group (NIG) and the IOP Women in Physics Group (WIPG) which took place on 25 April 2018.
Meeting with EPWS, September 2017
Over many years, WiPG was represented by Ann Marks within EPWS – the European Platform for Women in Science.
2017 winner of Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize
Dr Jessica Boland has won the IOP's Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize, which was until last year called the IOP Women in Physics Group's Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year Award.
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16 July
- 1746 Birth of Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the dwarf planet Ceres
- 1945 The “Trinity” test – the first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon – takes place in the New Mexico desert
- 1969 Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the Moon launches
- 1994 The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
- 1888 Birth of Frits Zernike, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize for his invention of the phase contrast microscope
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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.
