WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

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WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICSIN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

• Preparation status October 2004
• National web page
• http//www. fzu.cz/varia/wyp2005/
• http//www.fzu.cz/ruzne/wyp2005/

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• Mail stamp issue date May 25, 2005Motive
  cconst, logo WYPFirst day envelope with
  Einsteins portrait
  
• L. Eckertová The Ways of Physical Recognition
  (Prometheus, Prague, 2005 in print)A popular
  booklet.
  
• Videocassette Accelerators and Detectors (Czech
  Physical Society, Prague, 2005)Understandable
  for general public, distribution mainly to
  secondary schools.
• 15th Conference of Slovak and Czech Physicists
  Koice, Slovakia, September 5-8, 2005
  

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• Memorial Conference Georg Placzek 1905-1955
  Brno, September 22-24, 2005 Born in Brno (Czech
  Republic nowadays).Neutron physics, light
  scattering.History and present impact of his
  works.
• Market of InventionsA national conference on
  teaching physics, school experiments etc. (held
  every year)
  
• Open doors days in physics and other scientific
  institutions (every year November) for general
  public

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• Random coincidence with 50 years of Czech
  institution in nuclear researchNuclear Physics
  Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
  Republic, Re near PragueNuclear Research
  Institute Re plcFaculty of Nuclear Sciences and
  Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University,
  PragueFounded in 1955C. imáne The Life Among
  Atomsor How it All Started in Our Country and
  Elsewhere (NRI Re, 2005, in print) Memories of
  the first director of Nuclear Physics Institute
  at Re, with popular introductions. Meetings of
  present and former employees, press releases on
  the anniversary of the Institutes.

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• Papers, interviews, programmes in public
  information media Einstein and Prague, physics
  of everyday life , modern physics still in very
  preliminary levelTo be contactedCzech TV
  programme series PopularisCzech Broadcast
  programme series MeteorNewspaper Lidové
  noviny (People Newspaper) Saturday scientific
  appendix
• Papers in Czech journals on Physics and Physics
  Teaching
  
• British Council Czech Republic proposed a help