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19th Frontiers of Physics Conference
11 October 2019
IOP Ireland and Waterford Institute of Technology hold 19th Annual Frontiers of Physics Conference.
BT Young Scientist Exhibition
15 January 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
22 October
- 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 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.
