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Editorial – European physicists My name is Peter and I am the Chairperson of the European Physical Society/History of Physics (EPS/HoP) Group. A visit to the Parlamentarium at the European Parliamentin Brussels showed me that the striking accents of the exhibition focus on the commonness of European politics and economics, but, where Europe’s shared cultural heritage was illustrated, there was little to be found on the topics of natural sciences and their great discoveries. [read more]	Kumiko Kotera: doing beautiful physics without giving up on family, art and the rest of the world Kumiko Kotera is a young researcher in Astrophysics, at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, (IAP) of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). [read more]
Nominations open for the EPS-Quantum Electronics and Optics Division 2017 Prizes The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division (QEOD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is soliciting nominations for the biennial Quantum Electronics and Optics Prizes, Fresnel Prizes and Thesis Prizes, which will be presented at the 2017 Edition of the CLEO/Europe-EQEC Conference in Munich ... [read more]	Autumn-January 2017 Emmy Noether distinction to Patricia Bassereau It is a great pleasure to announce that the Autumn-Winter 2016 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Patricia Bassereau from the Institute Curie of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France. [read more]	EuroScience statement EuroScience, the European grassroots organisation of scientists and other stakeholders in science and innovation, is very concerned about the impact that policies in several countries will have on the key tenets of science: the open exchanges of ideas and people. [read more]
Police horses contribute to research in physics Recently, fifteen police horses in Gothenburg have contributed to science. They have supported the development of a new method to detect damage in the hooves by using thermoelectric sensors. [read more]	The town meeting at Darmstadt for the NuPECC long range plan The European nuclear physics community met at Darmstadt (DE) on January 11^th-13^th to discuss and finalise the NuPECC Long Range Plan (LRP) 2017. [read more]	Report on the First Biology for Physics Conference The 1st Biology for Physics Conference (BioforPhys17) took place on the 15-18th January 2017 in Barcelona (ES). It was organised by the Small Biosystems laboratory of the ... [read more]
Announcement of the 2017 Dan David Prize Laureates Announcement of the 2017 Dan David Prize Laureates in the three Time Dimensions: Past Time Dimension, Present Time Dimension and Future Time Dimension. [read more]	European Research Area – Progress Report 2016 The European Research Area (ERA) Progress Report 2016 shows strong progress over the last years on all priorities. [read more]	2017 King Faisal Prize awarded to Daniel Loss and Laurens Molenkamp The King Faisal Foundation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia awarded the 2017 King Faisal International Prize for Science ... [read more]
IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 2017 – call Nominations are sought for the Young Scientist Prize in ... [read more]	First evidence for matter-antimatter asymmetries in baryon decays by LHCb The LHCb collaboration has published today in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry ... [read more]	Featured in EPN [read more]
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Editorial – European physicists

My name is Peter and I am the Chairperson of the European Physical Society/History of Physics (EPS/HoP) Group.

A visit to the Parlamentarium at the European Parliamentin Brussels showed me that the striking accents of the exhibition focus on the commonness of European politics and economics, but, where Europe’s shared cultural heritage was illustrated, there was little to be found on the topics of natural sciences and their great discoveries.