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  1. Internet Resources
  2. Associations
  3. Branches of Physics
  4. Educational Resources
  5. Experiments
  6. Institutions
  7. Physicists

INTERNET RESOURCES

GENERAL

bulletPhysicsWeb Source: The Institute of Physics, London, England

ASSOCIATIONS

EUROPE

INTERNATIONAL

bulletEuropean Physical Society (EPS) Genčve, Switzerland
Society serving the dual purpose of providing a forum for individual physicists, and acting as a federation of national societies and academies. Its membership includes about 3000 physicists, from over 50 countries and with a variety of occupations, as well as 36 member societies and a number of collaborating societies and associate (corporate) members.

BELGIUM

bulletBelgian Physical Society (BPS)

CROATIA

bulletHrvatsko Fizikalno Društvo (HFD) - Croatian Physical Society

HUNGARY

bulletEötvös Loránd Fizikai Társulat / Roland Eötvös Physical Society [In Hungarian and English]

UNITED KINGDOM

bulletThe Institute of Physics London

NORTH AMERICA

UNITED STATES

bulletAmerican Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
bulletAmerican Institute of Physics (AIP) College Park, MD, USA
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.
bulletAmerican Physical Society (APS) College Park, MD, USA
Major professional organization for physicists in the United States and a significant force in physics internationally (more than 41,000 scientists worldwide ae members). A non-profit scientific and educational Society, its members are evenly distributed in academia, industry and government laboratories.
bulletPhysics Instructional Resource Association (PIRA)
Association based in the US aimed at helping physics teachers through sharing ideas about demonstrations, laboratory activities, learning centres and instructional resources in general.

BRANCHES OF PHYSICS

ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

bulletElectromagnetic Spectrum Source: Science Hypermedia, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Frequency and wavelength range for the various types of electromagnetic radiation, from gamma rays to radio waves.

ENERGY SOURCES

bulletAlternative Energy and Renewable Energy Sources Source: University of Oregon Continuation Center, Eugene, OR, USA
Distance-education course
bulletPhysics of Energy and The Environment Source: University of Oregon Continuation Center, Eugene, OR, USA
Distance-education course

NUCLEAR FUSION

bulletFusion Energy - Educational Web Site Source: General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Information on all aspects of high-temperature fusion theory and research.

RELATIVITY

bulletGeneral Relativity Tutorial Source: John Baez, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.
A rather detailed introduction to the theory of general relativity. Advanced mathematical knowledge is assumed.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

bulletPhysics Demonstration Resources Source: Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Links to online physics demonstration manuals from approx. 20 universities, mostly in the US. Many of the demonstration manuals are classified according to the PIRA (Physics Instructional Resource Association) Demonstration Classification Scheme.

EXPERIMENTS

NUCLEAR REACTORS

bulletMEDUSA Tokamak Experiment by: Undergraduate Research Team at the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering PhysicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
A low-aspect ratio tokamak ("magnetic bottle designed to hold plasmas at the very high temperatures required for fusion energy ") whose purpose is to probe tokamak performance for fusion energy research and plasma physics applications.

INSTITUTIONS

ASIA

JAPAN

bulletKEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) Tsukuba / Tokyo [In Japanese and English]
bulletRIKEN (Rikagaku Kenkyűsho) -  Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Saitama / Tsukuba [In Japanese and English]

EUROPE

INTERNATIONAL

bulletCERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) Genčve, Switzerland

FRANCE

bulletGrand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL) (Large National Heavy Ion Accelerator) Caen [In French and English]

HUN.GIF (1881 bytes) HUNGARY

bulletAtommagkutató Intézet (ATOMKI) / Institute of Nuclear Research Debrecen [In Hungarian and English]
bulletKFKI (Központi Fizikai Kutató Intézet - Central Physics Research Institute) Budapest [In Hungarian and English]
bulletMTA Geodéziai és Geofizikai Kutatóintézet / Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Sopron [In Hungarian and English]

ITALY

bulletIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) Catania

NORWAY

bulletOslo Cyclotron Laboratory, Fysisk Institutt, Universitetet i Oslo

SWITZERLAND

bulletPaul Scherrer Institute (PSI) Villigen [In French, German and English]
In addition to elementary particle physics, solid-state physics, nuclear and non-nuclear energy research, the Institute also does research in life and material sciences and energy-related ecology.

NORTH AMERICA

CANADA

bulletTRIUMF Vancouver, BC
Canada's national meson research facility on the campus of  UBC (University of British Columbia)

UNITED STATES

bulletArgonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL
Operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy.
bulletIndiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF) Bloomington, IN
bulletFermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Batavia, IL
bulletNational Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) East Lansing, MI
Located on the campus of Michigan State University (MSU)
bulletSLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) Stanford, CA
Operated by Stanford University.
bulletUniversity of Washington Nuclear Physics Laboratory Seattle, WA

PHYSICISTS

COLLECTIONS

bulletPictures of Famous Physicists Source: Dr. Joachim Reinhardt, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
An indexed archive of more than 240 pictures and photographs of famous (and some not so famous) physicists.

FAMOUS PHYSICISTS

EINSTEIN, ALBERT (1879-1955)

bulletAlbert Einstein Online Author: Steven Morgan Friedman, Great Neck, NY, USA

SZILÁRD, LEÓ (1898-1964)

bulletLeo Szilard Online Author: Gene Dannen, Corvallis, OR, USA

 

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