December 2018 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Editorial: Celebrate Astronomy in 2019 Under One Sky
Astronomy is a science that fascinates humankind. On the one hand astronomy touches on the largest philosophical questions facing us: Where do we come from? Where will we end? How did life arise? On the other hand, the beauty of the night sky is breathtaking, making astronomy quite attractive to the general public.
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EPS Historic Site in Heidelberg: The birthplace of spectral analysis
Spectral analysis has an enormous range of applications from the classical chemical analysis of substances, for example in industry, medicine or forensics, to the observation of spectra in astro- and atomic physics, to applications for basic physics or metrology.
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EPS Historic Site: The Laboratorium in Bergara
On October 20th 2018, the Laboratorium in Bergara was officially declared an Historic Site of the European Physical Society.
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The 2018 APS/EPS Landau-Spitzer Award
The 2018 APS/EPS Landau-Spitzer Award for the development of “A novel and very efficient method to heat fusion plasmas using electromagnetic waves” was awarded to Yevgen Kazakov, Jef Ongena, John Wright and Steven Wukitch.
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Lutz Schröter becomes President of the German Physical Society from 2020 to 2022
In its most recent meeting, the DPG Council elected Lutz Schröter, Industry Manager, as the future President of the world’s largest physical society with over 60,000 members.
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Launch of the European Open Science Cloud
The official launch of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was organized in Vienna on 23 November 2018 under the auspices of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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On Zientzia contest will award the best science videos
The 9th edition of the On Zientzia video contest has just started. It is organised by Donostia International Physics Center and Elhuyar.
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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities November 2018
The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
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Call for EPS Fellows
EPS Members are invited to nominate EPS Individual Members as EPS Fellows. Individuals whose achievements in physics, whether in research, industry or education and/or through commitment to the SOCIETY warrant specific recognition are eligible to become EPS Fellows.
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