The Great Telescope at Birr Castle, the astounding achievement of one man, has been recognised as a European Physical Society Historic Site. Karl Grandin, Chair of the EPS Historic Sites Committee, represented the Society at a ceremony on September 20, commenting on the Castle’s “remarkable and unique history”.
On September 3 2019 the former Institute of Physics of the University of Frankfurt has been awarded the honorary title “EPS Historic Site” by the European Physical Society.
The former laboratories of Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen in Heidelberg have been distinguished as an EPS Historic Site.
On October 20th 2018, the Laboratorium in Bergara was officially declared an Historic Site of the European Physical Society.
Sunday, August 26 2018, the Observatories on the Haldde Mountain was inaugurated as an EPS Historic Site, the first in Norway, at nearly 70° north.