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Physics-based companies receive IOP Business Awards at parliamentary event
18 October 2018
Employment Minister Alok Sharma MP spoke at the presentation of our Business Awards to 12 innovative companies at a reception in parliament on 16 October, mentioning his high regard for the IOP and urging physicists to be much more vocal about the difference they are making to society
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Towards Gender Equality in Physics - what is Medical Physics getting right?
Registration deadline: 25 October 2018.
IOP 2019 Topical Research Meeting on Time
Invited speakers have been confirmed.
Physics in Food Manufacturing Conference 2019
Provisional Programme now available.
BRSG Christmas Meeting 2018
Registration is now open.
Physics of Lubricant Additives
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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.
Rugby meeting
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual Rugby meeting.
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
18 October
- 1954 Texas Instruments announces its development of the transistor radio
- 1967 Venera 4 becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet when it reaches Venus
Physics in Perspective
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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.
