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Physics courses in Ireland 2019 booklet published

Technical Careers Fair

Our members are driving change through their passion for physics

Check out the physics buskers

19 October 2018

On 16 October William Rowan Hamilton’s discovery of quaternion algebra is commemorated with a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broome Bridge.

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.

Tyndall Lectures 2018
Physics of the circus, James Soper. Tyndall Schools Lecture tour Jan-Feb 2018

1770 Birth of Thomas Johann Seebeck, discoverer of the thermoelectric effect
1881 Birth of Clinton Davisson, joint winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize along with George Paget Thomson for their independent discoveries of electron diffraction
1881 Birth of Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, the geophysicist who first developed equations that describe how seismic waves behave when travelling between different layers of Earth and are useful in locating underground reservoirs

Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or two
Schools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!