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Wild Weather at NI Science Festival 24 February 2019
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News from IOP in Ireland
15 January 2019
Over 50,000 attended the BT Young Scientist Exhibition
Dr Mindflip - physics outreach with a difference
11 December 2018
Top Irish physics students honored
11 December 2018
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IOP Ireland School Award winners announced
Congratulations to Eoin Dennehy and Jack O'Sullivan nominated by St Colmcille's Community School for IOP Ireland school award.
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
15 Febuary
- 1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei, often referred to as the “father of modern physics” and known for his advocacy of the heliocentric model of the solar system and for discoveries made with his improved telescope, including the Galilean Moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, phases of Venus and geographical features of the moon
- 1861 Birth of Charles Edouard Guillaume, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for contributions to precision measurements
Physics in Perspective
Watch talks from well-renowned physicists at our lecture series; you may even learn a thing or twoSchools lecture series
The schools lectures feature topics from the Olympics to rock music. Plenty of physics to learn too!
Advanced Digital Imaging Laboratory Using MATLAB®
Listen to the IOP ebooksTM webinar with Professor Leonid Yaroslavsky.Six months in, and 80% of UK library services sign up to Access to Research
10 million academic articles, including content from IOP Publishing, now included in the initiative.
