Merminga will begin her term on 18 April and succeeds Nigel Lockyer
Read article: Lia Merminga becomes first woman to head Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Jess Wade reviews Carbon Queen: the Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock
Read article: Mildred Dresselhaus: a giant of nanoscience
Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship
Read article: Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards
Donna Strickland shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for her work developing the technique of “chirped pulse amplification”
Read article: Ask me anything: Donna Strickland – ‘I wouldn’t have wanted to know that I would win a Nobel prize’
David Appell reviews A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
Read article: A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics
Applications are open until 14 February 2022
Read article: Credit where it’s due: why not nominate yourself or a colleague for an Institute of Physics award?
Sofia Sheikh is one of a handful of postdoctoral researchers who have specialized in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Read article: Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations
Naming phenomena after discoverers is traditional, but not necessarily permanent, says Matin Durrani
Read article: Webb, Stark and Schrödinger: how physics memorializes controversial figures
Laura Hiscott brings you a quiz about the human side of this cultural icon and national treasure
Read article: A quiz on the life of Stephen Hawking – how much do you know about the famous physicist?
Farai Mazhandu is chief executive and co-founder of Bayete Quantum Technologies, which seeks to use quantum tech to solve problems for people in Africa
Read article: Ask me anything: Farai Mazhandu – ‘I find it fulfilling to support and inspire others, and to make seemingly complicated subjects exciting’
