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Tyndall 2019 – The Physics of Waves by Tom McCormack
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News from IOP in Ireland
Top Irish physics students honored
11 December 2018
Professor David Riley presented awards to Ireland’s top physics students.
Causeway Sensor wins IOP Start-up Award
26 November 2018
Eilish McLoughlin wins Lise Meitner Medal and Prize
26 November 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
11 December
- 1972 Apollo 17 touches down in the last mission of the world’s first programme of manned moon landings
- 1781 Birth of David Brewster, who discovered the laws of light polarization by reflection and refraction
- 1863 Birth of Annie Jump Cannon, the compiler of the Henry Draper Star Catalogue featuring 225 000 stars
- 1882 Birth of Max Born, one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and the recipient of the 1954 Nobel Prize
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.
