Precise Dimensions

Affiliations

The History of Physics Group of the IOP

About the editors

Malcolm Cooper is a former broadcast television engineer now retired. His upbringing in the somewhat authoritarian style of engineering studies drove him to pursue an honours degree in physics with the Open University. During this time the IOP opened its doors to OU students and he joined as a student member in 1987, opting for the History of Physics Group, later attaining full corporate membership. He has served on the group's committee in several capacities for many years, including briefly as chairman and secretary but his chief contribution has been as editor of the group's newsletter from 2004 to date. Although sometimes now described as more like a journal, he considers its less formal style a very positive attribute and likes to think it has been instrumental in doubling the group membership over that period.

Jim Grozier is a former railway telecommunications engineer and experimental particle physicist, now working as a lab demonstrator at University College London. His research interests include the philosophy of measurement in the physical sciences, and popular (mis)conceptions of special relativity. He is a member of the Committee of the History of Physics Group, and has published numerous articles in the Group's newsletter. He is the author of Made In Hungary, the official history of the International Association of Physics Students, and of a web-based History of Early High Energy Physics Research at UCL. His article on bubble chamber scanners at UCL in the 1960s was published in the British Society for the History of Science's magazine, Viewpoint, in October 2015.