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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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Physics in Perspective: 2013 lectures
Prof Jim Smith on the surprising health implications of the Chernobyl disaster
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
General
IOP responds to BIS committee on Scottish independence
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
June 19
1623 Birth of Blaise Pascal, known for his contributions to hydrodynamics; the SI unit of pressure is named after him
- 1922 Birth of Aage Bohr, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize, along with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater, "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"
- 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.
