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News from IOP in Ireland

9 December 2019
Dr Yvonne Kavanagh, Chair of the Institute of Physics Ireland, presented Silver Medals to the top Leaving Certificate physics students and the Earnshaw Award for the best physics final year undergraduate project in Ireland.
Committee recommends Ireland join CERN
13 November 2019
Science and Stormont 2019
5 November 2019
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School Student Physics Award roll of honour 2019
Congratulations to Eimear Mary Curran from Loreto Grammar School, Omagh on being awarded the School Student Physics Award!
IOP Ireland School Award winners announced
Congratulations to the most recent winners of the School Student Physics Award Alan Philips and Ruth Heavey from Castletroy College, Eoin Disney and Peter McHale from Patrician Secondary School and George Roberts and Conor Corcoran from St Mary's Knockbeg College.
School Student Physics Award roll of honour 2018
We have new recipients of this award: congratulations Amy English and Sarah O'Callaghan for Thornberry College, Derry.
Dublin teacher recognised by Institute of Physics
David Hobson will be given the 2018 IOP Ireland award for outstanding contributions to the teaching of physics.
Tyndall Lectures 2018
Physics of the circus, James Soper. Tyndall Schools Lecture tour Jan-Feb 2018
10 December
- 1684 Edmund Halley reads Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s Laws from his theory of gravity to the Royal Society
- 1815 Birth of Ada Lovelace, considered to be the first computer programmer
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