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Malala advocates education for all at Women in Physics conference
21 July 2017
Internationally renowned activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai spoke at the International Conference on Women in Physics in Birmingham on 20 July
Two IOP Fellows are awarded Royal Society medals
19 July 2017
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York Summer School - 29 August
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Environmental Physics Group - latest newsletter now available online
£30k IOP Teacher Training Scholarships
Deadline extended to 23 July. Apply now.
Deadline approaching - IOP Teacher Training Scholarships
£30,000 tax-free funding and IOP support. Apply now
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Latest Particle Accelerators and Beams Group newsletter now available
International Conference on Quantum, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics
Abstract submission deadline EXTENDED: 24 July 2017
Business Innovation and Growth Town Meeting, 27 July 2017, London
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27 July
- 1733 Birth of Jeremiah Dixon, the astronomer whose survey undertaken along with Charles Mason established the Mason-Dixon line – resolving a border dispute between four British colonies in North America and later symbolically serving as the border between northern and southern US states
- 1848 Birth of Loránd Eötvös, known for his work on gravity and on surface tension
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.
