Associate Professor Nathaniel Hermosa II, PhD gives honors to the National Institute of Physics as he receives the TWAS Prize for 2017 in the field of Physics during the Lectures and Awarding Ceremonies hosted by the National Academy of Science
NIP Publication 2017: 3rd Quarter
Dr. Hermosa receives the 2017 NAST OYS Award and a DOST Medal
NIP Associate Professor Nathaniel Hermosa II is recently awarded by two institutions: the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). DOST recognized Dr. Hermosa with an Outstanding Research and Development Award (Basic Research)
Dr. Perry Esguerra receives 2016 NRCP Achievement Award
NIP Professor Jose Perico “Perry” H. Esguerra received the 2016 National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) Achievement Award last March 22, 2017 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City. The NRCP Achievement Award is the highest recognition
Scientists as Public Servants — Prof. Saloma
In the March 2017 Editorial issue of the Philippine Journal of Science v.146(1), Prof. Caesar Saloma provides reasons why scientists are public servants as they serve as essential support in the proper governance of the nation. He argues: “A country
Prof. Galapon’s paper gets highlighted in EPL
The Europhysics Letters has recently published a booklet that “showcases articles from last year that we felt deserved some additional promotion—on the basis of citations, board member recommendations, and downloads.” One of these are an article from our colleague, Prof.
Theoretically, light can be slowed down in vacuum
Theoretically, light may be traveling slower than we thought. Dr. Nathaniel Hermosa II with his student Mr. Nestor D. Bareza, Jr. is able to show that the group velocity of a beam of light propagating helically to be slower than
Almoro appointed as Topical Editor of Applied Optics Journal
(FEB. 29)—The Optical Society of America (OSA) Board of Editors appointed Dr. Percival F. Almoro of the National Institute of Physics (NIP) as Topical Editor for its Applied Optics Journal from 2016 to 2018. Applied Optics is ISI SCI-indexed journal
Dr. Lim of NIP receives Achievement Award during the 83rd NRCP Scientific Meeting
NIP faculty members who are members of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) recently participated in the 83rd NRCP Scientific Meeting last 16 March 2016 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City. According to the latest
NAST and NIP celebrate the centenary of Einstein’s general relativity
The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and the National Institute of Physics (NIP) celebrated through a public symposium the centenary of Albert Einstein’s landmark publication on general relativity (GR). The symposium entitled “Sentenaryo ng Teoryang General Relativity” was