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Astronomers capture first images of a black hole
12 April 2019
On April 10 2019, astronomers working on the Event Horizon Telescope released the first-ever image of a black hole. Read more on our beta site.
Professor Michael Coey wins the Max Born Medal and Prize 2019
3 April 2019
The award, for outstanding contributions to physics, was awarded at the annual DPG conference in Rostock on 12 March. Read more on our beta site.
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.
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20 April
- 1535 A parhelion - the appearance of a luminous ring around the Sun - is observed over Stockholm
- 1902 Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride
- 1918 Birth of Kai Siegbahn, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize along with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for their work in laser spectroscopy
- 1927 Birth of Karl Alexander Müller, who was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize jointly with Johannes Georg Bednorz for their studies of superconductivity in ceramics
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Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
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