Relations with Other Physical Societies

International Links

The Institute of Physics with 35 000 members is one of the few large physical societies in the world. Of the national societies only the German Physical Society ( DPG ) with nearly 50 000 members and the American Physical Society (APS) with 44 000 members are larger. The Physical Society of Japan (JPS) when combined with the Japan Society for Applied Physics (JSAP) is of similar size. The Chinese Physical Society is arguably of similar size. In Europe, after the DPG (50 000) and the Institute of Physics (35 000) comes the Dutch Physical Society ( NNV ) with about 3 500 members.

The Institute has collaboration agreements with a large number of other physical societies and wishes to expand this. Members of many of these societies are able to attend Institute meetings at member rates  and have use of the John Barton Centre at the Institute headquarters in London on the same terms as Institute members. In return Institute members can attend meetings of other societies at their members' rates.  

For a number of physical societies special arrangements apply for access to Physics World , which is regarded as a major benefit to the physics community, through their society. In some cases there are arrangements for taking up full membership of the Institute through their own body (particularly those bodies that were once branches of the Institute). These arrangements are designed to help other physical societies to provide wider offers to their members. In return Institute members can purchase books published by EDP Sciences (French Physical Society) and the Italian Physical Society at 20% discount.

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