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    Jun 5, 2025
    From Thursday, 5 June, we’ll no longer be actively posting on X. Find us and read more great physics news and content on: 🦋Bluesky - instituteofphysics.bsky.app 💻LinkedIn - uk.linkedin.com/company/instit… 📷Instagram - instagram.com/institute_of_p… 📰Facebook - facebook.com/instituteofphy…
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    Jan 8, 2017
    Happy birthday to professor Stephen Hawking, who turns 75 today!
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    Nov 7, 2023
    We’re delighted to announce @ClaraMBarker as the new IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative. Dr Barker says: “I look forward to working with different groups who share a passion for physics but feel they cannot achieve their maximum potential. (1/2) iop.org/about/news/dr-…
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    Nov 7, 2019
    Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska Curie, born #onthisday in 1867. During her career she discovered radium and polonium and was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. She remains the only person to receive a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. #WomeninSTEM #IYPT2019
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    Sep 23, 2019
    Happy first day of #autumn! Today is the #Septemberequinox, meaning the days are noticeably shorter and the nights longer. Equinoxes occur when the Sun illuminates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres equally, so day and night are of roughly equal length. #autumnequinox
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    Nov 7, 2018
    Happy birthday Marie Curie, who was born #onthisday in 1867. She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, and the first person (and only woman) to be awarded twice. She still remains the only person to receive a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. #WomeninSTEM
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    Oct 17, 2020
    Happy Birthday to American astronaut, engineer and physician Mae Carol Jemison, born #onthisday in 1956. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Images © NASA #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth
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    Mar 14, 2019
    Happy birthday Albert Einstein, born #onthisday in 1879.
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    Feb 8, 2019
    Calling all #WomenInScience! To celebrate International Day of Women & Girls in Science on Monday, we want to showcase women working in physics today. Tweet a selfie and tell us what you do using #iamaphysicist and we’ll retweet! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScienceDay
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    Jan 4, 2019
    Happy Birthday to Sir Isaac Newton, born #onthisday (according to the Gregorian calendar) in 1643. Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation, the three laws of motion, is credited for co-developing calculus, and invented the first working reflecting telescope.
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    Jan 7, 2023
    As Katharine Birbalsingh steps down as the government social mobility tsar, a thread on girls, physics & the devastating effect of stereotypes. Girls are not put off physics because of "hard maths" (girls got more top grades than boys in A level maths in 2021 & 2022). Instead,
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    Sep 15, 2017
    Loss of signal confirmed; she is no more. Farewell Cassini-Huygens. #GrandeFinale #cassini
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    Jan 4, 2018
    Happy Birthday to Isaac Newton, born #onthisday (New Style dates) in 1643. During his life, Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation, the three laws of motion, is credited for co-developing calculus, and invented the first working reflecting telescope.
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    Nov 7, 2023
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    … If we can work towards a more inclusive and welcoming physics environment, the real winner is physics itself.” (2/2)
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