Société Française de Physique

The Société Française de Physique (SFP) is the main professional society of French physicists.

The French Physical Society (SFP) founded in 1873 by Charles Joseph d’Almeida.

The French Physical Society is a non-profit state-approved membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its publications, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. It brings physicists living in France together by encouraging their interactions regardless of their cultures and backgrounds.

The SFP is the leading voice for physics and an authoritative source of physics information for the advancement of physics and the benefit of all; The SFP aims to increase awareness, access, and understanding of the value that physics holds for the greatest number. Another mission of the SFP is to represent the French Physicists’ community in contact with policymakers and other scientist authorities or societies: Academy of Sciences, homologous societies (French Societies of Acoustics, Optics, Vacuum, etc., French Society of Mathematicians), Union of Physicists (which groups physics teachers in high schools).

The SFP organizes a large number of events (conferences, workshops, exhibitions, a general congress, etc.) for the academic, school and the general audiences. The SFP edits the Bulletin Newsletters and the review “Reflets de la Physique” that play a major role while communicating scientific information in multi-field Physics and reporting activities of its sections, divisions, and commissions. Each year, several prizes are awarded to physicists in honor of specific works or actions towards the promotion of physics outside the community. More recently the society paid special attention to questions related to young physicists, the place of women in physics and building bridges with the industries.

The SFP is a member of The European Physical Society (EPS) and of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

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