Annual Review
Annual Review 2008
Extending our reach
22 July 2009
Each year the annual review gives us the opportunity to look back at what we have done over the past 12 months to work towards achieving our mission to promote physics and support physicists.
2008 was a pivotal year for physics. The biggest physics story of the year was the switch-on in September of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a complex state-of-the-art facility designed to probe the constituents of the universe at the smallest scales and highest energies, and to search for the Higgs boson. The Institute was able to play an important role in significant physics developments over the year. Here are just a few of them:
- The Institute welcomed the publication of the RCUK Review of UK Physics, led by Prof.Bill Wakeham, which strongly endorsed the value of physics and the need for continued funding of both pure and applied research.
- By the end of 2008, membership of the Institute had grown to more than 36 000.
- Those studying for accredited degrees can now join as online members at not cost, to become part of the student wing, Nexus.
Throughout the year the Institute carried forward its implementation of the strategy agreed by Council in 2006, which has now been refreshed for its final phase, taking us to 2010.
2008 Annual Review (PDF, 1.58 MB)
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