The Atominstitut in Vienna was designated an EPS Historic Site
The ATOMINSTITUT (Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics of TU Wien, Vienna, Austria) was designated an EPS Historic Site in 2019 honoring the achievement of Helmut Rauch.
The Hotel Metropole in Brussels, declared EPS Historic Site in 2015
Discover a video of the Hotel Metropole, EPS Historic Site inaugurated in 2015
EPS Historic Site, Leuven, Belgium : Georges Lemaître, founder of the Big Bang theory
On 23 May 2019, the Belgian Physical Society, the European Physical Society, and the sister-universities UCLouvain and KU Leuven will celebrate the person and the work of Monsignor Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), who was a professor at the yet undivided University of Louvain, and the original founder of the theory of the Big Bang.
EPS Historic Site in Budapest to Honour the Eötvös Experiment
The former physics building of the Loránd Eötvös University ‒ the physics department was moved from the centre of the city to a new campus about 20 years ago, the former building being occupied now by institutes of the Faculty of Humanities ‒ has been recognised as an EPS Historic Site.
EPS Historic Sites—Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISAN), which is located in science city Troitsk, Moscow, was inaugurated as an Historic Site of the European Physical Society (EPS). The EPS President, Rüdiger Voss and the EPS Secretary General, David Lee attended the ceremony, which was held on June 20, 2018, at the 50th jubilee of the ISAN.
Magurele Physics Campus Honoured with EPS Historic Site Distinction
On 15th of November 2017 a plaque declaring the Magurele Physics Campus as an EPS historic site was unveiled by the EPS President, Rüdiger Voss. The EPS Secretary General, David Lee, participated in the ceremony, together with representatives of local authorities, the Romanian Ministry of Research, the Romanian Academy, and the Research Institutes from Magurele.
EPS Historic Site – Lise Meitner and the discovery of nuclear fission
On the 29th of October (2016) more than 70 physicists attended the inauguration of the second EPS historic site in Sweden. The Uddmanska house in Kungälv, outside Göteborg, is where the Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist Lise Meitner was staying when she understood that it was possible to split an atomic nucleus.
Joint EPS-APS Historic Site – The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, NJ-USA is one of the world’s foremost centers for curiosity-driven basic research. On 9 November 2016, the European Physical Society (EPS) and the American Physical Society (APS) were pleased to offically recognise the IAS as their first Joint Historic Physics Site in the United States. The text of the citation reads: “Honoring the pivotal contributions of the Institute for Advanced Study to the development of theoretical physics, including the work of Albert Einstein and many others.”
EPS awards former Institute of Physics “Historic Site”
Great honour for the Würzburg science: The European Physical Society (EPS) has distinguished the institute where in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered the radiation later named after him. The building is now the third “Historic Site” of the EPS in Germany.
The Old Cabinet of Physics of the University of Coimbra distinguished as EPS Historic Site
On 11 March 2016, the European Physical Society (EPS) and the Portuguese Physical Society [SPF], honoured the “Cabinet of Physics of the University of Coimbra”, in the building of the oldest Jesuit college in the world (founded in 1542) donated by the Marquis of Pombal to the University of Coimbra.
New EPS Historic Site in Prague dedicated to Ernst Mach
2016 marks the centenary of Ernst Mach’s death. Some five years ago, in anticipation of this anniversary, the Czech physical society proposed to designate the building in Prague where Ernst Mach worked as an EPS historic site. Once accepted, the administrative and design planning for the plaque could begin. Indeed, the historical building, the former Institute of Physics, is located in the UNESCO protected Old Town of Prague, recognised by UNESCO’s cultural heritage programme, where patience and attention to details is required. Fortunately enough, the building is still part of Charles University, which – after initial detailed scrutiny of the project – considerably helped obtain the necessary authorisations.
