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Physics World
Cover of May 2019 issue
EditorMatin Durrani
CategoriesScience
Frequencymonthly
Circulation50,000 (2013)[citation needed]
First issue1988; 36 years ago (1988)
CompanyIOP Publishing Ltd
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inBristol
LanguageEnglish
Websitephysicsworld.com
ISSN0953-8585

Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world. It is an international monthly magazine covering all areas of physics, pure and applied, and is aimed at physicists in research, industry, physics outreach, and education worldwide.

Overview

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The magazine was launched in 1988 by IOP Publishing Ltd, under the founding editorship of Philip Campbell.[citation needed] The magazine is sent free to members of the Institute of Physics, who can access a digital edition of the magazine; selected articles can be read by anyone for free online. It was redesigned in September 2005 and has an audited circulation of just under 35000.

The current editor is Matin Durrani.[1] Others on the team are Michael Banks (news editor) [2] and Tushna Commissariat and Sarah Teah (features editors). Hamish Johnston, Margaret Harris and Tami Freeman are online editors.

Alongside the print and online magazine, Physics World produces films and two podcasts.[3] The Physics World Stories podcast[4] is hosted by Andrew Glester[5] and is produced monthly. The Physics World Weekly podcast is hosted by James Dacey.[6]

Breakthrough of the Year

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The magazine makes two awards each year. These are the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year and the Physics World Book of the Year, which have both been awarded annually since 2009.[citation needed]

Top 10 works and winners of the Breakthrough of the Year

2009: "to August Jonathan Home and colleagues at NIST for unveiled the first small-scale device that could be described as a complete "quantum computer"

2010: "to ALPHA and the ASACUSA group at CERN for have created new ways of controlling antihydrogen"

2011: Aephraim M. Steinberg and colleagues from the University of Toronto in Canada for using the technique of "weak measurement" to track the average paths of single photons passing through a Young's interference experiment.[7]

2012: "to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN for their joint discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider".[8]

2013: "the IceCube Neutrino Observatory for making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos".[9]

2014: "to the landing by the European Space Agency of the Philae (spacecraft)on67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko", which was the first time a probe had been landed on a comet[10]

2015: "for being the first to achieve the simultaneous quantum teleportation of two inherent properties of a fundamental particle – the photon".[11]

2016: "to LIGO's gravitational wave discovery".[12]

2017: "to First multimessenger observation of a neutron star merger".[13]

2018: "Discovery that led to the development of “twistronics”, which is a new and very promising technique for adjusting the electronic properties of graphene by rotating adjacent layers of the material."[14]

2019: "First direct observation of a black hole and its ‘shadow’ by the Event Horizon Telescope" [15]

2020: "Silicon-based light with a direct band gapinmicroelectronics" [16]

2021: "Quantum entanglement of two macroscopic objects" [17]

2022: "Deflection of a near-Earth asteroid by DART satellite" [18]

2023: "Brain–computer interface that allowed a paralysed man to walk" [19]

Book of the Year

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Top 10 books and the Book of the Year winner

A blue ribbon (Blue ribbon) appears against the winner.

2009: Blue ribbonThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo

2010: Blue ribbonThe Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy

2011: Blue ribbonQuantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in SciencebyLawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University[20]

2012: Blue ribbonHow the Hippies Saved PhysicsbyDavid Kaiser from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[21]

2013: Blue ribbonPhysics in Mind: a Quantum View of the Brain by the biophysicist Werner Loewenstein[22]

2014: Blue ribbonStuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape our Man-made World - Mark Miodownik

2015: Blue ribbonTrespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: a Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything - Amanda Gefter

2016: Blue ribbon Why String Theory? - Joseph Conlon[23]

2017: Blue ribbon Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story - Angela Saini[24]

2018: Blue ribbon Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different - Philip Ball[25]

2019: Blue ribbon The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life - Paul Davies[26]

Pictures of the Year

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Top 10 Favourite Pictures of the Year

2015:

References

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  1. ^ "Our Team." Physics World. Accessed December 15, 2017.
  • ^ "@Mike_Banks" on Twitter
  • ^ Physics World – Multimedia. Accessed February 14, 2018.
  • ^ "iTunes. Accessed June 29, 2018.
  • ^ . PlayerFM. Accessed June 29, 2018.
  • ^ Physics World – Audio. Accessed June 29, 2018.
  • ^ "Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2011", Physics World 16 December 2011
  • ^ "Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs of 2012", Physics World 14 December 2012
  • ^ "Cosmic neutrinos named Physics World 2013 Breakthrough of the Year", Physics World 13 December 2013
  • ^ "Comet landing named Physics World 2014 Breakthrough of the Year", Physics World 12 December 2014
  • ^ "Double quantum-teleportation milestone is Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year", Physics World 11 December 2015
  • ^ "LIGO's gravitational-wave discovery is Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year", Physics World 12 December 2016
  • ^ "First multimessenger observation of a neutron-star merger is Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year – Physics World". Physics World. 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  • ^ "Discovery of 'magic-angle graphene' that behaves like a high-temperature superconductor is Physics World 2018 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2018-12-13. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
  • ^ "First direct observation of a black hole and its 'shadow' is Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  • ^ "Silicon-based material with a direct band gap is the Physics World 2020 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  • ^ "Quantum entanglement of two macroscopic objects is the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2021-12-14. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  • ^ "Deflection of a near-Earth asteroid by DART is the Physics World 2022 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2021-12-14. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  • ^ "Brain–computer interface that allowed a paralysed man to walk is the Physics World 2023 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  • ^ "Physics World's 2011 Books of the Year", Physics World 19 December 2011
  • ^ "Physics World's 2012 Book of the Year", Physics World 18 December 2012
  • ^ "Biophysics 'rollercoaster ride' wins Physics World's 2013 Book of the Year", Physics World 17 December 2013
  • ^ Shiu, Gary (2016). "Review of Why String Theory? by Joseph Conlon". Physics Today. 69 (6): 59–61. doi:10.1063/PT.3.3201. ISSN 0031-9228.
  • ^ "Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World’s 2017 Book of the Year", Physics World 13 December 2017
  • ^ "Beyond Weird by Philip Ball wins Physics World Book of the Year 2018", Physics World 17 December 2018
  • ^ "The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies wins Physics World Book of the Year 2019", Physics World 18 December 2019
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