Merseyside
The Merseyside Branch, one of thirteen regional branches of the Institute of Physics, organises lectures, meetings and conferences for its members in the Merseyside region, and works locally to promote physics, physics education and public understanding of physics.
The branch can be contacted here.
Forthcoming Events:
25 April 2008
Allan Chapman lecture - The heavens on Merseyside: 1618 to 2008
From the early seventeenth century, western Lancashire became one of Britain’s centres of excellence in astronomical research. Jeremiah Horrocks, at Much Hoole, was Europe’s next great planetary astronomer after Kepler. After him came a succession of outstanding astronomers based in the corridor from Liverpool to Preston to Salford. Victorian Liverpool was the home of William Lassell, another great planetary astronomer, and after 1881 the Liverpool Astronomical Society became the prototype of the British Astronomical Society.
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