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Is there equality in the way we communicate physics?
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Queen’s Birthday Honours for members
18 June 2013
A member of the Institute of Physics’ council and two other fellows have been recognised with OBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
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RAMS Conference
IOP Materials and Characterisation Group event in October in Manchester
IOP Annual Dinner
IOP East Anglia Branch event on 13 July in St Catherines College, Cambridge
Physics of Emergent Behaviour
Registration deadline: 17 June 2013
International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS 2013)
Registration deadline: 2 July 2013
Superconductivity and Quantum Fluids
Registration deadline: 2 July 2013
PR’13: International conference on photorefractive effects, materials and devices
Early registration deadline: 1 July 2013
EuroDisplay 2013 (33rd International Display Research Conference)
Early registration deadline: 30 July 2013
EMAG 2013
Early registration deadline: 2 August 2013
Physical Aspects of Polymer Science 2013
Early registration deadline: 8 August 2013
The Conference of Astronomy & Physics Students
This event is organised by the IOP's University Student Network for the end of June
June 18
1832 Birth of William Crookes, inventor of a vacuum tube, now named after him, in which electrons were first discovered
- 1898 Birth of Carl Hermann, known for his invention of a standardised notation in crystallography
- 1943 Birth of Burt Rutan, the aerospace engineer who designed Voyager, the first aircraft to travel around the world without stopping or refueling, and the privately funded spaceplane SpaceShipOne, the winner of the Ansari X-Prize
- Institute of Physics Blog
The IOP blog highlights daily global physics news and features a closer look at some of the IOP's activities from outreach programmes and national and regional involvement to our international partnerships and interesting research developments.
- Teaching Advanced Physics
The Teaching Advanced Physics (TAP) website contains detailed ideas and resources for teaching physics to students aged 16-19.
- Winners of the Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize announced
Congratulations to the winners of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical's Best Paper Prize 2012. - Impact Factor success
The 2011 Impact Factors published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for many of the journals published by IOP Publishing.
