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The Netherlands Physical Society (, NNV) is the professional society of physicists in the
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
and a member of the
European Physical Society The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach, supporting physicists to engage in the design and implementation of European s ...
. Established in 1921, the goals of the society are to promote physics and to serve the interests of physicists in the Netherlands. Its main activities are publishing the Dutch physics journal ''Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde'' (NTvN), the organisation of an annual physics conference and the co-development of the physics education
curriculum In education, a curriculum (; : curriculums or curricula ) is the totality of student experiences that occur in an educational process. The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experi ...
in the Netherlands.


Sections

The NNV has the following sections that focus on either a particular field of physics or a specific topic of interest to physicists: * Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics * Energy and Climate * History and Foundations of Physics * Education and Communication * Physics of Plasmas and Gas discharges * Subatomic Physics


References

{{Authority control Physics societies Scientific organizations established in 1921 Scientific organisations based in the Netherlands 1921 establishments in the Netherlands