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16 August 2018

The IOP is pleased to see that entries to physics A-level rose again this year, despite an overall decline in the number of students taking A-levels

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Magnetism 2019
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Advances in Photovoltaics
Early registration deadline: 17 August 2018. Poster submission deadline: 31 August 2018.

Silicon Quantum Information Processing 2018
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Physical Acoustics Group Tutorial Day
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Photon 2018
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The Business Innovation Awards
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1989 Trading on Toyko’s stock market comes to a halt after a geomagnetic storm caused by a solar flare affects the functioning of electronic components
1845 Birth of Gabriel Lippman, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for his invention of a method of reproducing colours in photographs, based on the interference of waves of light

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