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Brian Cox's key note speech at IOP (from the IOP´s main website)
Topic of the moment: Physics of espionage (from the IOP´s main website)
Girls in physics (from the IOP´s main website)
2013 Scholarships now open (from the IOP´s main website)
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Lewis Fry Richardson - Father of Numerical Weather Prediction
A blue plaque will be unveiled to LF Richardson at Eskdalemuir Observatory
39th Stirling Physics Meeting
The largest meeting of the physics teaching community in the UK
IOP in Scotland Edinburgh lectures
Black Holes, White Holes and Bathtub physics and meet the committee
Tenth Lunchtime Rendezvous of the Seniors´ Group in Edinburgh
Bookings are now open for the event on Wednesday 27 March 2013
Life in the Universe
Life in the Universe A day of FREE talks & discussion by eminent experts, for the general public.
Consultations
IOP Scotland responds to STEMEC consultation on professional learning communites
Tenth Lunchtime Rendezvous of the Seniors´ Group in Glasgow
Bookings are now open for the Tenth lunchtime rendezvous of the seniors' group in Glasgow
IOP in Scotland Edinburgh lectures
The lecture on 11 December will be on the Higgs
IOP Scotland meet the committee
Meet the IOP Scotland committee at the University of St Andrews
IOP Scotland meet the committee
Meet the IOP Scotland committee at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen
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
- 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.
