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OnlineRead moreMimi’s Tiny Adventure: Lab in the Library
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Wed 20 Aug 2025
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Neutron Scattering Group Early Career Meeting
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Thu 21 Aug 2025
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
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In-personRead moreQuantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics (QuAMP 2025)
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Tue 2 Sep 2025
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Sun 31 Aug 2025
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OnlineRead moreUnlocking the Power of Start-Ups (how start-ups can transform careers and companies): A joint webinar from the IOP and the IET
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Wed 10 Sep 2025
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HybridRead moreUK Space Weather and Space Environment Meeting III
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Mon 8 Sep 2025
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Fri 12 Sep 2025
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Latest updates in physics from Physics World and the IOP
2023 Lise Meitner Medal and Prize
Dr Harry Cliff for outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics, through exhibitions, festivals, talks, magazine articles and a popular science book, which together have reached mi…
2023 Peter Mansfield Medal and Prize
For pioneering and sustained contributions to the field of cancer research, through development of novel sensing, imaging and ionizing radiation technologies applied to basic translational and medical…
2023 Sam Edwards Medal and Prize
Professor Ulrich Keyser for pioneering the study of transport of structured nucleic-acid molecules through nanopores and the quantification of out-of-equilibrium polymer dynamics at the single-molecul…
2023 James Chadwick Medal and Prize
Professor Themis Bowcock for outstanding contributions to the design, construction and operation of major detector and computing systems that have underpinned quark and lepton-flavour measurements wor…
2023 Paul Dirac Medal Prize
Professor Gavin P Salam for profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics, especially those concerning the identification and structure of hadronic jets.…
2023 Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize
Dr Alasdair Price and Dr Euan Allen for developing and commercialising a world-leading integrated photonics platform for optical coherence tomography, and designing a personal eye scanner around …
2023 Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize
Professor Belinda Wilkes for outstanding leadership as Director of the Chandra X-ray Center, supporting the operation, exploitation and public relations of NASA's premier X-ray observatory, and signif…
Honorary Fellows: Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee
Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee for outstanding achievements in particle physics, particularly as a founder of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, and his support for physics in Afric…