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Created: 26 July 2010
Updated: 20 February 2013

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European Physical Society

European Physical Society past presidents:
1968 – 1970 G. Bernardini, Italy
1970 – 1972 E. Rudberg, Sweden
1972 – 1976 H.B.G. Casimir, The Netherlands
1976 – 1978 I. Ursu, Romania
1978 – 1980 A. Zichichi, Italy
1980 – 1982 A.R. Mackintosh, Denmark
1982 – 1984 J. Friedel, France
1984 – 1986 G.H. Stafford, United Kingdon
1986 – 1988 W. Buckel, Germany
1888 – 1991 R.A. Ricci, Italy
1991 – 1993 M. Jacob, Switzerland
1993 – 1995 N. Kroo, Hungary
1995 – 1997 H. Schopper, Switzerland
1997 – 1999 Professor Emeritus Denis Weaire
1999 – 2001 Sir Arnold Wolfendale, Durham University, UK
2001 – 2003 M. Ducloy, France
2003 – 2005 M.C.E. Huber, Switzerland
2005 – 2007 O. Poulsen, Denmark
2007 – 2009 Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner, Germany
2009 – 2011 M. Kolwas, Poland

ECHOPHYSICS - European Centre for the History of Physics, Pollau Castle, Austria

EPS History of Physics Group

Dr. Peter M. Schuster, Chair of the Group History of Physics, EPS

Board Members

Denis L. Weaire Professor (emeritus), Dublin, Ireland
Peter E. Holmberg, Professor (emeritus), University of Helsinki, Finland
George Vlahakis, Professor, Greece
Helge Kragh, Professor of History of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Karl Grandin, Professor, Center for History of Science, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Rajka Jurdana-Sepic, Associate Professor, University of Rijeca, Croatia
Sofia Talas, Dr., Museum of the History of Physics, University of Padua, Italy
Dieter Hoffmann, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Maciej Kluza Dr., Museum, University of Jagelon, Poland
Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron, Professor, Madrid, Spain
Marta C. Lourenco, Dr., University of Lisboa, Portugal

History of Physics Group

    Professor Edward Arthur Davis is Chair of the IoP History of Physics Group since 2012.
    Born in 26 November 1936 he studied physics at Birmingham University and postgraduated at Reading University, worked in the USA as a post-doc at the University of Illinois (1963 - 1964) and as a scientist at the Xerox Corporation (1964 - 1967).
    In the Cavendish Laboratory he was lecturer (1968 - 1973). He was lecturer in the Department of Physics and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. In 1980 Professor Davis hold the Chair of Physics at the University of Leicester (1980 - 2002). He was dean of the Faculty of Science (1987 - 1990).
He held a Royal Society John Jaffe Fellowship Award     He is Emeritus Professor of the University of Leicester and lectures there to undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
    Professor Edward A. Davis now holds the position of Distinguished Research Fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in the University of Cambridge. He was lecturer in its Physics Department (1973 - 1980).
    He is currently Coordinating Editor and Letters Editor of Philosophical Magazine – a condensed matter physics and materials science journal first published in 1798.
    He wrote books: "Electronic Processes in Non-crystalline Materials" with Nevill Mott (1971, 2 edn 1979); Science in the Making, v. I (1995), v. II (1997), v. III (1998), v. IV (1999); J. J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron with I. Falconer (1997); Nevill Mott: Reminiscences and Appreciations (1998).

Previous Chairs of the IoP History of Physics Group

1984 – 1988 Professor Jack Meadows
1989 – 1995 Sir Brian Pippard
1996 – 2000 Dr John Roche
2001 – 2003 Professor Ian Butterworth
2004 – 2007 Professor Denis Weaire
2008 – 2012 Dr Peter Ford

Victor Francis Hess Society