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unusual facts about Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar


1950 Assam – Tibet earthquake

In an attempt to further uncover the seismic history of Northeast India, field studies were conducted by scientists with the National Geophysical Research Institute and Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar.


Andrew Pinsent

He is also a member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics and a tutor of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham.

Arindam Roy

He is an Economics graduate from the Christ College, Cuttack and has a degree from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

Artur Ekert

For his discovery of quantum cryptography he was awarded the 1995 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and the 2007 Hughes Medal by the Royal Society.

Astronomical interferometer

D. Monnier, Optical interferometry in astronomy, Reports on Progress in Physics, 66, 789-857, 2003 IoP.

Bernard Tan

He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K), Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Singapore, and Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London.

Bidyut Marg

Bidyut Marg is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Biranchinarayan Temple, Palia

The sculptures and carvings of the two door jambs bear a close resemblance to the Siva temples of Bhubaneswar and Khiching of the 10th or 11th century A.D.

Boita

The earliest depiction of ships in Odisha is in a sculptured frieze showing two ships, found near the Brahmeswar temple, Bhubaneswar, and now preserved in the Odisha State Museum.

Burkard Hillebrands

He is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics, member of the State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences (OPTIMAS) and fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).

Cora DuBois

She conducted research between 1961 and 1967 on the temple city of Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Orissa, where a number of graduate students in Anthropology and Social Relations conducted fieldwork.

Cyclone Lehar

The director of the Bhubaneswar Meteorological Centre asked the ports of Paradip and Gopalpur to hoist danger signals in preparation for the storm.

Deba Ray College, Bhubaneswar

The courses in the higher secondary level are affiliated to the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Odisha and courses offered in the under-graduate levels are affiliated to Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Denis Hall

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the UK Institute of Physics, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America.

Duncan Haldane

His awards include Fellow of the Royal Society of London; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Boston); Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK); Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; winner of the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society (1993); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (1984–88); Lorentz Chair (2008), and Dirac Medal (2012).

Energy recovery linac

For this suggestion, originating from a special committee of CERN physicists, M. Klein (Liverpool university), on the suggestion of the UK's Institute of Physics, received the 2013 mutual Max Born Prize of the British and the German Physical Societies.

Heinrich Tessenow

This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.

Howard Covington

In 2010 Mr Covington was invited to become a fellow of the Institute of Physics in recognition of his services to mathematical sciences.

Hypaethros

Ranipur-Jharial, Odisha, India houses one among the five existing rare monuments of Hypaethral temples dedicated to 64 yoginis in India (the other four are Chausath Jogini Temple at Hirapur near Bhubaneswar, Khajuraho and Bheraghat near Jabalpur) and Dudhai near Lalitpur.

Ignazio Ciufolini

International Occhialini Prize and Medal of the UK Institute of Physics (IOP) and Italian Physical Society (SIF) awarded in London by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, president of IOP, for providing further experimental confirmation of Einstein's theory of General Relativity through the use of laser-ranged satellites to study and measure frame-dragging.

Institute for Plasma Research

The scientists of the Centre are working in close collaboration with national and international institutes like Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, Kyushu University, Japan, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Culham Laboratory, UK, and Flinders University, Australia, to name a few.

IOP Publishing

IOP Publishing (previously named Institute of Physics Publishing) is the publishing company of the Institute of Physics.

Janpath, Bhubaneswar

Janpath is a major north-south thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Kamalakanta Jena

Sri Jena was an MSc student in the P. G. Department of Physics, Utkal University campus, Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar during the session 1991–1993.

Khordha district

Maa Ugra Tara : This temple is located in between Rameswar chowk & chandpur (Tangi block) in NH-5 & 55 km from Bhubaneswar towards Balugaon & 35 km from Balugaon towards BBSR.

Kritansh

Kritansh is the techno-management festival of KIIT University, Bhubaneswar held during the month of February.

Mazlan Othman

In 2009, for "her work in developing astronomy education in Malaysia and her leading national and international role in space science," the Institute of Physics awarded Mazlan its President's Medal.

Mindfire Solutions

It employs more than 700+ workers in its two engineering centres in Delhi and Bhubaneswar and caters to more than 100 clients in the US and Europe.In 2012, Mindfire Solutions opened a new development center in Bangalore.

Myles Allen

In 2010, Allen was awarded the Appleton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for "his important contributions to the detection and attribution of human influence on climate and quantifying uncertainty in climate predictions".

Rajpath, Bhubaneswar

Rajpath is a major east-west thoroughfare in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Richard Shweder

Shweder's main fieldwork outside the United States has been in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in the state of Orissa, India.

Roger Cowley

Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstPhys (born 24 February 1939) is an English physicist who has specialised in the excitations of solids.

Satoshi Kawata

He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Physics (IOP), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP).

Software Technology Parks of India

STPI has a presence in many of the major cities of India including the cities of Bangalore, Mysore, Trivandrum, Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Pune, Guwahati, Noida, Mumbai,Nagpur, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Dehradun, Patna, Rourkela, Ranchi, Gandhinagar, Imphal, Shillong, Nashik etc.

Sonepuri Sari

Padmashri Kailash Chandra Meher, of Western Odisha was working as an Art Designer in Weaver Service Centre Bhubaneswar, under Development Commissioner Handloom, New Delhi, Ministry of Textiles, Govt.

Stuart Meeson

Professional qualifications include CPhys (Chartered Physicist) from the Institute of Physics (1999), CSci (Chartered Scientist) from the Science Council (2004).


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