Société française de physique
The Société française de physique (SFP) is the French physical company founded in 1873 and headquartered in Paris . Its president is Catherine Langlais.
It is recognized as a non-profit organization in France (RUP). The SFP is the majority shareholder of the science publisher EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences), which was originally founded in 1920 as a publisher of the journals Journal de Physique and Le Radium . The Journal de Physique later went up in the European Physical Journal , as did other European physics journals. Her in-house magazine is the Reflets de la physique , which has been published since 1953.
Its presidents included famous physicists such as Gabriel Lippmann (1893), Henri Becquerel (1897), Jean Perrin (1929), Frédéric Joliot (1946), Louis de Broglie (1949), Alfred Kastler (1954), Louis Néel (1957), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1982), Maurice Jacob (1985).
Prices
- Gentner-Kastler Prize with the German Physical Society
- Holweck Prize with the Institute of Physics (Franco-British Physics Prize)
- Prix Jean Ricard
- Prix Félix Robin
- Prix Spécial de la Société française de physique (Special Prize of the Society)
- Prix Louis Ancel for Solid State Physics
- Prix Aimé Cotton for optics
- Paul Langevin Prize for Theoretical Physics
- Prix Joliot-Curie for nuclear physics and particle physics, named after Irène Joliot-Curie (annually since 1958)
- Prix Louis Néel for technological developments