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Editorial – Happy Birthday SIF! One of the oldest, most prestigious and most active member societies of the EPS, the Società Italiana die Fisica (SIF), is celebrating its 120^th birthday in 2017. This is an excellent occasion to look back briefly at the strong role which the SIF has played in the – much shorter – history of the EPS: Italian Physicists had a strong impact on the establishment of our Society; Gilberto Bernardini was the founding President (and first individual member), succeeded later by Antonino Zichichi, Renato Angelo Ricci, and more recently by Luisa Cifarelli, who was the first woman to be elected President of the EPS and who is now the President of the SIF. [read more]	EPS Physics Education Division Award for Secondary School Teaching 2017 goes to Dr Jozef Beňuška The Award for Secondary School Teaching is granted every two years to a high school teacher for a specific contribution to teaching, in particular one that might be applicable in a variety of countries. “Teaching” is interpreted broadly and can include activities that encourage students to study physics or improve their access to physics. Nominations are made by the National Physical Societies. [read more]
First China-Europe Solar Physics Meeting Accomplished During May 15 – 19, 2017, the first China-Europe Solar Physics Meeting (CESPM-1) was successfully organised in the city of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. The European Solar Physics Division (ESPD), on behalf of the entire European solar physics community, strongly endorsed and advocated for this gathering. [read more]	The EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division is happy to announce the winners of its two 2017 prizes The Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division (SNPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) is happy to announce the winners of the two prizes of the Division: [read more]	Report on the 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference The 8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14-19 May and was attended by more than 1,550 people from 34 different countries. [read more]
Mini-workshop at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences The 73^rd board meeting of the Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) was held on 13-14 June 2017 in Villa Lanna in Prague, the representative residence of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS). [read more]	Making a valuable resource usable with water In oil extraction sites, gaseous methane is simply burned, even though it could actually be a useful precursor material for fuels and products of the chemical industry. One way to make methane usable is to convert it to methanol. Being liquid, methanol is easier to transport than methane, and it can be used both as fuel and as raw material for the chemical industry. [read more]	The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle Geneva, 6 July 2017. Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark. [read more]
Young Ukrainian physicists who fled the war took part in DPG Spring meetings This article highlights the difficult conditions in which physicists (and other scientists) from the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces as a consequence of the military conflict in eastern Ukraine that has caused more then 10,000 deaths and over 25,000 injuries. [read more]	First board meeting of new Gravitational Physics Division The past 18 months have seen a coming of age for gravity research. In February last year, the LIGO Virgo collaboration announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two massive black holes more than a billion light years away. [read more]	Featured in EPL [read more]
An important milestone: Groundbreaking ceremony for the FAIR accelerator facility The construction of the international accelerator facility FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) has begun. The start of building construction and civil engineering work is a crucial moment for one of the largest construction projects for scientific research worldwide. [read more]	First Stone Ceremony for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope A ceremony marking the first stone of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) has been attended today by the President of the Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet Jeria. The event was held at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, close to the site of the future giant telescope. [read more]	New from the Institute of Physics Recent updates from the Institute of Physics. The IOP is under-going several membership changes this year with the changes being voted upon at the 2017 Annual General Meeting. [read more]
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities June 2017 The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month: [read more]
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Editorial – Happy Birthday SIF!

One of the oldest, most prestigious and most active member societies of the EPS, the Società Italiana die Fisica (SIF), is celebrating its 120^th birthday in 2017. This is an excellent occasion to look back briefly at the strong role which the SIF has played in the – much shorter – history of the EPS: Italian Physicists had a strong impact on the establishment of our Society; Gilberto Bernardini was the founding President (and first individual member), succeeded later by Antonino Zichichi, Renato Angelo Ricci, and more recently by Luisa Cifarelli, who was the first woman to be elected President of the EPS and who is now the President of the SIF.