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Phillips Awards for service to the IOP go to Stuart Palmer and Nicola Wilkin
20 July 2018
Professor Stuart Palmer and Professor Nicola Wilkin are both to receive the IOP’s Phillips Award, given for distinguished service to the Institute, it was announced today
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Electrostatics 2019
Abstract submission now open
Advances in Photovoltaics
Invited speakers have been confirmed for this event.
Silicon Quantum Information Processing 2018
Abstract submission now open
Photon 2018
The full programme is available online
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for the Thin Films and Surfaces Group Woodruff Thesis Prize are now open
BRSG Christmas Meeting 2018
Website now live.
Rugby meeting
Registration is now open for the 30th Annual Rugby meeting.
Women Physicists in the Nuclear Industry One Day Event
Organised by the IOP Nuclear Industry Group (NIG) and the IOP Women in Physics Group (WIPG) which took place on 25 April 2018.
Meeting with EPWS, September 2017
Over many years, WiPG was represented by Ann Marks within EPWS – the European Platform for Women in Science.
22 July
- 1784 Birth of Friedrich Bessel, who first used measurements of parallax in calculating the distance to a star and after whom Bessel functions in mathematics are named
- 1887 Birth of Gustav Ludwig Hertz, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize along with James Franck for their experiments on inelastic collisions of electrons in gases, which lent support to the Niels Bohr’s atomic model
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
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.
