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Marina Galand receives Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize at a ceremony in France
21 September 2018
The Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize, an award of the IOP and the French Physical Society, was presented to Dr Marina Galand in Grenoble, France on 28 August
Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize goes to Professor Elena Pian
17 September 2018
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Science of Printing
Abstract submission deadline: 2 October 2018.
Early Careers Researchers Colloquium
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The Physics of Microorganisms II
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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.
ThUNDDAR+IGT Networks Speed Dating Event
Registration deadline: 24 September 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
Health of Photonics Report
16 May 2018, De Vere West One, London, UK.
22 September
- 1791 Birth of Michael Faraday, known for his work on electromagnetism – the unit of capacitance is named for him, as is the law of electromagnetic induction
- 1905 Birth of Eugen Sänger, the aerospace engineer known for his contributions to the development of the ramjet and to “lifting bodies” in which the body of an aircraft, rather than wings, generates lift
- 1907 Birth of Hermann Schlichting after whom the Tollmien-Schlichting equation describing instabilities in viscous boundary layers in fluids is named
- 1922 Birth of Chen Ning Yang, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize jointly with Tsung-dao Lee for their work on the nonconservation of parity in interactions mediated by the weak nuclear force
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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.
