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Keith Burnett: ‘I have this absolute commitment that the broader we are, the more powerful physics will be’

23 Apr 2024 Matin Durrani

Keith Burnett, the current president of the Institute of Physics, talks to Matin Durrani about his career in physics, the value of universities to a modern economy and how the IOP’s new strategy seeks to make physics open to all

Keith Burnett in a garden
Forward looking Originally from South Wales, Keith Burnett is an atomic physicist whose two-year term as president of the Institute of Physics began in October 2023. (Courtesy: Schmidt Science Fellows)
Founded in 1920, the Institute of Physics has had some high-flying presidents over the years. Early

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