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A century of change: the Institute of Physics turns 100

06 Nov 2020 Susan Curtis
Taken from the November 2020 issue of Physics World.

The Institute of Physics was created in 1920 to champion a new generation of professional physicists working in industry, academia and the government, as Susan Curtis describes

100 logo in gold
(Courtesy: IOP Publishing/Mat Ward)
Imagine being a physicist in 1920, the year the Institute of Physics was formed. The ordered world o

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