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Study reveals scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change
16 May 2013
A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused
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ICOAM 2013 – Second International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum
Registration deadline: 22 May 2013
Physics of Emergent Behaviour
Early registration deadline: 22 May 2013
International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS 2013)
Early registration deadline: 24 May 2013
Superconductivity and Quantum Fluids
Abstract submission deadline: 29 May 2013
EMAG 2013
Abstract poster submission deadline: 31 May 2013
Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films
Registration deadline: 1 June 2013
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Physics in the Field
The East Anglian Branch will be bringing Physics in the Field to the Suffolk Show at the end of May
Founders Prize
Prize awarded for an outstanding contribution to Polymer Physics in the UK and Ireland
May 21
1792 Birth of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, after whom the Coriolis Effect is named
- 1921 Birth of Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist who contributed to the largest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated - the 50MT Tsar Bomba - and who was later awarded the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize after working to halt nuclear testing
- 1946 A criticality accident occurs with a plutonium weapon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US; the resulting radiation kills physicist Louis Slotin
- 2010 A spacecraft driven by a solar sail is launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; it would fly past Venus a year later in the first successful demonstration of this means of propulsion between planets
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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.
