June 2019 | Facts and Info from the European Physical Society | e-EPS
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Bike route and EPS Historic Site Award honour Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang theory
On Thursday 23 May 2019, a new bike route dedicated to the Big Bang theory was festively opened. Furthermore, the Heilige-Geestcollege in Leuven, where Georges Lemaître lived and worked when he developed the Big Bang theory, received the prestigious Historic Site Award from the European Physical Society (EPS).
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Two Prestigious Prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics announced by the European Physical Society
The European Physical Society is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of its two most prestigious prizes in Quantum Electronics and Optics.
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2019 EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes
All winners of the EPS High Energy and Particle Physics Prizes have been announced.
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Interview with Ágnes Kóspál: There are many rewarding moments in my work
Ágnes Kóspál is an astrophysicist who worked as a postdoc at the Leiden University and at the European Space Agency.
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Philip Haslinger, TU Wien, wins the Young Scientist Prize 2019 of the AMOPD-EPS
The Young Scientist Prize 2019 of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) was awarded to Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien).
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Commission appoints Mauro Ferrari as next President of the European Research Council
The European Commission has appointed Professor Mauro Ferrari as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC), responsible for funding investigator-driven frontier scientific research in Europe.
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“The Four(er) Vectors” won the international physics competition PLANCKS
The winners of the German physics competition DOPPLERS also won the international competition PLANCKS in Odense, Denmark.
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Professor Toshiki Tajima Receives the 2018 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
The Division of Plasma Physics annually selects an outstanding plasma physicist for the S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics.
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How will the latest European Elections affect European R&D?
Once the ballots of the European election 2019 were counted, the scientific community had mixed feelings about the outcome.
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The Charpak-Ritz Prize 2019 is awarded to Benoît Deveaud
Professor Benoît Deveaud is honoured for his “pioneering optical spectroscopy studies dedicated to the ultrafast and quantum optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.”
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The waltz of the LHC magnets has begun
Major endeavours have got underway in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) over the past few weeks, with the extraction of magnets from the accelerator tunnel.
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EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities May 2019
The EPS works to support its members. Click here for the list of the activities of the EPS Executive Committee and the EPS Staff.
