History of Physics Group

History of Physics Group Links

The links below are to sites which may be of interest to anyone interested in the history of physics and related subjects. Comments and suggestions for URLs will be gratefully received by the Webeditor preferably by email at the address on the contacts page.

General Physics and Physics-Related Sites

in the UK
- Archives of the IEE has History and Biographies
- On the IOP website: Best of History Physics lists articles from Physics World
- BBC History of Science and Discovery
- British Society for the History of Mathematics
- British Society for the History of Science
- National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists
- The Royal Society publishes obituaries of its Fellows in book form and has some information on the Internet.
Blue Plaques
- Erected by English Heritage
- Erected by the Institute of Physics notes on how to nominate new ones and list of existing ones.
- Erected in the IOP South Central Branch to, Baird, Jackson, Woolley
- Erected by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, Humphrey Gainsborough, (engineer), William Morris, (car maker), Francis Simon (low temperature physicist), Jethro Tull, (agriculturalist and inventor)

Page last updated 9 Nov 2012