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Launch of the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
22 March 2019
On Tuesday 19 March the IOP celebrated the launch of the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund the Fund. The IOP’s Chief Operating Officer Rachel Youngman reflects on the ideas behind the fund and why it is an important step forward for physics research in the UK and Ireland. Read more on our beta site.
19 March 2019
The Institute of Physics and leading physicist Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will today (Tuesday 19 March) launch a new PhD scholarship fund to encourage greater diversity in physics. Read more on our Beta site.
International Women’s Day words of wisdom for girls and women thinking of a physics career
11 March 2019
This International Women’s Day we asked our Twitter community what advice they’d give to girls and women looking to go into a physics career. Here are their words of wisdom. Read more on our beta site.
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London and South East branch events spring 2019
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Anthony Waterhouse Fellowship
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26 February 2019, Institute of Physics, London, UK. Registration now available.
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LSE Events Autumn 2018
Events for the coming autumn for the LSE branch.
London and South East Branch Summer Events
LSE events for summer 2018.
The Business Innovation Awards
A reception to celebrate the winners will be held at the Palace of Westminster on 16 October 2018.
Journeys in Intellectual Property: Perspectives from Physics and Technology
20 September 2018, Edinburgh
24 March
- 1896 AA Popov makes the world’s first radio transmission
- 1965 Spacecraft Ranger 9 broadcasts television images of the moon shortly before crash landing
- 1993 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is discovered just over a year before it collides with Jupiter
- 1820 Birth of AE Becquerel, discoverer of the photovoltaic effect, on which solar cells depend
- 1891 Birth of Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, the co-discoverer of what is now known as Cherenkov radiation – the light produced by a charged particle moving through a dielectric medium faster than the velocity of light in that medium
- 1893 Birth of Walter Baade, the astronomer who first classified stars into distinct groups – Population I or Population II – determined that supernovae were a new, previously unknown class of object and hypothesized the existence of neutron stars
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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.
