Sponsors

Institute of Physics

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application.

It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physical Society for the UK and Ireland and supports physics in education, research and industry. In addition to this, the IOP provides services to its members including careers advice and professional development and grants the professional qualification of Charted Physicist (CPhys), as well as Charted Engineer (CEng) as a nominated body of the Engineering Council; it also holds its own separate Royal Charter. The IOP's publishing company, IOP Publlishing, publishes 85 academic titles.

European Physical Journal H

European Physical Journal H is a single-blind peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for discussing the history of physics primarily from the physics and physicists' perspective and is intended to support physicists in their quest to reflect on, understand, and improve their own discipline. It is equally intended to promote fruitful interaction between working physicists and historians of sciences. As part of these efforts, EPJ H now explicitly invites submissions of "tandem papers". The journal seeks in particular contributions that

* Address the history of physics and of physical ideas and concepts, especially those that illuminate or add to our understanding of modern physics.

* Analyse recent history that chronicles and interprets significant shifts in the field.

* Examine the historical development of physics in concert with adjacent disciplines such as mathematics, natural sciences, and philosophy of science.

* Study the historical development of physics in the context of public policy (i.e., funding paradigms, educational structure changes, national research agendas, international cooperative frameworks, etc.)

* Analyse the development of experimental ideas and designs, and the role of technology development in physics discoveries.

* Annotate and contextualise translations of relevant foreign-language texts.

University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra is a public research university in Coimbra, Portugal. First established in Lisbon in 1290, it went through a number of relocations until moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537. The university is among the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world, the oldest in Portugal, and played an influential role in the development of higher education in the Portuguese-speaking world. In 2013, UNESCO declared the university a World Heritage Site, noting its architecture, unique culture and traditions, and historical role.