Institute of Physics

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Institute of Physics
Key people
Tom Grinyer (CEO)
Antonia Seymour (CEO IOP Publishing)[2]
Budget
£72 million[3]
Staff
556 (2018)[4]
Websitewww.iop.org

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based

research and application.[5]

It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000.[6] The IOP is the Physical Society for the UK and Ireland and supports physics in education, research and industry.[7] In addition to this, the IOP provides services to its members including careers advice and professional development and grants the professional qualification of Chartered Physicist (CPhys), as well as Chartered Engineer (CEng) as a nominated body of the Engineering Council.[8] The IOP's publishing company, IOP Publishing, publishes 85 academic titles.[9]

History

Frederick Guthrie founded the Physical Society of London.
John Hall Gladstone, the first President of the Physical Society of London.
John Cockcroft, the first president of the merged societies.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the first female president of the IOP, donated £2.3 million to the IOP to establish the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

The Institute of Physics was formed in 1960 from the merger of the Physical Society, founded as the Physical Society of London in 1874, and the Institute of Physics, founded in 1918.[10][11]

The Physical Society of London had been officially formed on 14 February 1874 by

Guthrie lecture
, now known as the Faraday Medal and Prize, was delivered in 1914.

In the early part of the 20th century, the profession of "

Journal of Scientific Instruments in 1922.[12] The annual Reports on Progress in Physics began in 1934[10] and is still published today. In 1952, the institute began the "Graduateship" course and examination, which ran until 1984 when the expansion of access to universities removed demand.[12]

In 1932, the Physical Society of London merged with the Optical Society to create the Physical Society. In 1960, the Physical Society and the Institute of Physics merged, creating a single organization with the name The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, with John Cockcroft elected at its first president. The new society combined the

Thomas E. Nevin, an Irish branch of the Institute of Physics was formed in 1964.[14] Upon being granted a royal charter in 1970, the organization was renamed as the Institute of Physics.[15]

Membership

The IOP has 23,000 members

postnominals MInstP), Fellow (entitled to use the postnominals FInstP) and Honorary Fellow (entitled to use the postnominals Hon.FInstP). Undergraduates, apprentices and trainees can become Associate Members, and qualification for MInstP is normally by completion of an undergraduate degree that is "recognised" by the institute – this covers almost all UK physics degrees.[17]
An MInstP can become an FInstP by making "an outstanding contribution to the profession."

These four grades of membership replaced the previous seven grades in January 2018; these changes introduced removed affiliate memberships for undergraduates (they are now Associate Members), removed the post-nominal letters AMInstP, and made Associate Members voting members.[18] In 2015, the membership of the Institute of Physics was 86% male at MInstP and 91% male at FInstP. 85% of Honorary Fellows were male.[19]

The institute grants

mortarboard with black tassels.[22][23]

Professional qualifications

See also:
Chartered Engineer, Registered Scientist, and Registered Science Technician

The institute grants the

MPhys integrated master's degree is standard, although experience leading to an equivalent level can be counted), have had a minimum of two years of structured training and a minimum of two years responsible work experience, have demonstrated a commitment to continuing professional development, and have gained a number of competencies.[27][28] From 2020, all CPhys holders are required to be professionally active and to submit an annual continuing professional development record.[29]

Education

The IOP accredits undergraduate degrees (BSc/BA and MSci/MPhys) in physics in British and Irish universities.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Advancing Physics was sold to Oxford University Press in January 2011.[30] The IOP also developed the Integrated Sciences degree, which is run at four universities in England.[31] The IOP provides an important educational service for secondary schools in the UK. This is the Lab in a Lorry, a mobile laboratory in a large articulated truck. This has three small laboratories where schoolchildren can try out various hands-on experiments, using physics equipment not usually available in the average school laboratory. Sponsorship is provided by EDF Energy and support from the British Science Association. IOP runs the Stimulating Physics Network, aimed at increasing the uptake of physics at A-level, and administers teacher-training scholarships funded by the Department for Education.[32][33]

In March 2019, the Institute of Physics launched the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund with the goal of helping female and black students to become physics researchers. The program is funded by

Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018 and donated the entire £2.3 million prize money to launch the fund.[34]

The institute is also interested in the ethical impact of physics, as is witnessed though the Physics and Ethics Education Project.[35]

Publishing

Main article: IOP Publishing

IOP Publishing is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IOP that publishes 85 academic titles.

Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1990, 1995 and 2000 and publishes a large number of journals, websites and magazines, such as the Physics World
membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, which was launched in 1988.

Governance

Main article: List of presidents of the Institute of Physics
Paul Hardaker, CEO of the IOP.

An elected Council governs and controls the affairs of the institute.[36] The council meets four times a year and has up to 21 members, of whom 18 are elected by members of the institute.

The president is elected by the membership of the institute and serves a term of two years. The current president is

CEO since 2012 has been Paul Hardaker.[38]

Coat of arms

Blue Plaque commemorating the work of William Henry Bragg, featuring the IOP coat of arms

The IOP has its own coat of arms, granted in 1994. The arms feature a shield bearing a representation of an atom, and the organisation's motto "Intellegite et explicate" ("Understand and explain"). Presidents of the IOP wear a medal featuring the coat of arms at formal occasions.[10]

Awards

Main article: Institute of Physics Awards

The institute awards numerous prizes to acknowledge contributions to physics research, education and application.[39]

Headquarters

The Institute of Physics building in Islington, London

Since its formation, the institute has had its headquarters in London. The early meetings of the Physical Society of London were hosted in

Second World War, the institute moved temporarily to the University of Reading. After the war, the institute returned to London, first to 19 Albemarle Street, where it stayed for little over a year, before moving to 47 Belgrave Square in December 1946.[12] The Physical Society continued to be based in Lowther Gardens until 1960. The institute moved to 76 Portland Place in 1996.[12]

In 2013, the IOP bought a property in

Islington Council in December 2015.[41][42] The IOP moved into this new building 29 October 2018.[43]

See also

References

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