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Scientists map unprecedented urbanization in East-Southeast Asia
3 March 2015
Researchers have, for the first time, mapped the rapid urban expansion that has occurred across the whole of East-Southeast Asia in the last decade
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2015 Joint UK-Japan Workshop on Physics and Applications of Superconductivity
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42nd IOP Plasma Physics Conference
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The physics of Microorganisms
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Magnetism 2015
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Manchester lecture: The physics of agent-based modelling
25 February, 6.30-7.30pm. Room G.33, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, All Saints Campus, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6HB
Young Persons Physics Lecture and Poster Competition
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March 4
- 1882 The UK’s first electric tram begins running in east London
- 1890 The Forth Bridge, the longest in Britain, is opened
- 1986 The Soviet space probe Vega 1 returns the first ever images of the nucleus of Halley’s Comet
- 1862 Birth of Robert Emden, who first developed a mathematical model of the structure of stars
- 1866 Birth of Eugène Cosserat, known for his studies of surface mechanics
- 1904 Birth of George Gamov, the theoretical physicist who discovered alpha decay and who worked in areas including star formation, the cosmic microwave background, and nucleosynthesis in stars and in the Big Bang
- 1944 Birth of Anthony Ichiro Sanda, the particle physicist known for his work on CP violation
- 1947 Birth of John Hinch, known for his work on fluid dynamics
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