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Winners of the gold medals under the golden shower. Photo: Henry Teigar All good things come to an end The 43rd IPhO is now over! Delegations, volunteers, organisers – all went to enjoy the ending ceremony with a minor...
The Absolute Winner Absolute winner Attila Szabo: “Preparing for IPhO takes years.” The absolute winner of the 43rd IPhO was Hungarian Attila Szabo. He also received awards for being best in theory...
Logo of the 44th IPhO. Designed by Bohr' atom model. Photo: Merily Salura Next year in Denmark Between declaring to host an IPhO and actually doing it there has been a big time gap for Denmark. They...
Gold medal. Photo: Henry Teigar Gold medalists Attila Szabó, Hungary HENGYUN ZHOU, People’s Republic of China YIJUN JIANG, People’s Republic of China CHIEN-AN WANG, Taiwan KAI-CHI HUANG,...
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  • Winners of the gold medals under the golden shower. Photo: Henry Teigar

    All good things come to an end

    Published on July 25, 2012 | No Comments
    The 43rd IPhO is now over! Delegations, volunteers, organisers – all went to enjoy the ending ceremony with a minor sadness.   When the hosts Robert Annus and Liisa Pulk asked how people liked Estonia, the crowd was unanimous- everyone was cheering and happy to...

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  • Guides waiting for their delegations. Photo: Siim Pille

    Volunteers of IPhO: “Sleepless nights, missing persons and lots of milk!”

    Published on July 24, 2012 | 4 Comments
      It has been ten days full of tension, work, laughter and tears. Now when IPhO has officially ended it´s time to get the reactions of the volunteers. Altogether the IPhO team consisted of 173 volunteers. Four of them had a chance to describe their...

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  • The Absolute Winner

    Absolute winner Attila Szabo: “Preparing for IPhO takes years.”

    Published on July 24, 2012 | 4 Comments
    The absolute winner of the 43rd IPhO was Hungarian Attila Szabo. He also received awards for being best in theory and best in Europe and won the IPhO’s Internet precompetition “Physics Cup”. During the afterparty following the closing ceremony Attila Szabo found a moment to...

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  • Michael Tari Charles Okhide is the youngest participant in the IPhO 2012. Photo: Andres Mihkelson

    Young and brave

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
    Michael Tari Charles Okhide (14) from Nigeria was born in 1998 and that makes him the youngest participant in IphO 2012.   “I get plenty of encouragement from those who are older than me. I should keep walking on their path and be more like...

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  • All the members of the Estonian delegation received medals from the IPhO, including the teams youngest member Kristjan (standing behind the sign, with glasses). Photo: Andres Mihkelson

    A successful week for the Estonian delegation

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
    Yesterday was a happy day  for all Estonians – our delegation managed to get 1 gold and 4 silver medals from the IPhO.   The press interviewed Estonian silver medallist, 15-year old Kristjan Kongas, whose knowledge was based on his own work, as he has...

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  • Logo of the 44th IPhO. Designed by Bohr' atom model. Photo: Merily Salura

    Next year in Denmark

    Published on July 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Between declaring to host an IPhO and actually doing it there has been a big time gap for Denmark. They declared to host the olympiad in 1999 and now 14 years later in 2013 they  will be actually doing it for the first time!  ...

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  • Gold medal. Photo: Henry Teigar

    Gold medalists

    Published on July 24, 2012 | 5 Comments
    Attila Szabó, Hungary HENGYUN ZHOU, People’s Republic of China YIJUN JIANG, People’s Republic of China CHIEN-AN WANG, Taiwan KAI-CHI HUANG, Taiwan Paphop   Sawasdee, Thailand Eric Schneider, United States of America JUN-TING HSIEH, Taiwan SIYUAN WEI, People’s Republic of China CHI SHU, People’s Republic of China...

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  • Silver medal. Photo: Henry Teigar

    Silver medalists

    Published on July 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
    Alexandra Vasilyeva, Russia Bijoy Singh Kochar, India Jeevana Priya Inala, India Zoltán Laczkó, Hungary Dan – Cristian  ANDRONIC, Romania Ramtin Yazdanian, Islamic Republic of Iran Vladysslav Diachenko, Ukraine Sebastian Linß, Germany Kunal Singhal, India Kohei Kawabata, Japan Volodymyr Sivak, Ukraine David Frenklakh, Russia Vsevolod Bykov,...

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  • Bronze medal. Photo: Henry Teigar

    Bronze medalists

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
    Milan Kornjača, Serbia Petar  Tadic, Montenegro Cristian Zanoci, Moldova Nicholas Salmon, Australia Oguzhan  Can, Turkey Mustafa Selman  Akinci, Turkey Volodymyr Rozsokhovatskyi, Ukraine Richard Thorburn, United Kingdom ANDREJ VLCEK, Slovakia Xuan Hien Bui, Vietnam Ivan Senyushkin, Kazakhstan Chen Solomon, Israel Martijn van Kuppeveld, Netherlands Jonathan Lay,...

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  • Honorable Mentioned medal. Photo: Henry Teigar

    Honorable Mentioned

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
      Jyri Maanpää, Finland SANDRO MALUDZE, Georgia Siobhan Tobin, Australia Simão João, Portugal Tomas Čerškus, Lithuania OSAMA YAGHI, Syrian Arab Republic KOAY HUI WEN, Malaysia Kasper Tolborg, Denmark Ramadhiansyah Ramadhiansyah, Indonesia OOI CHUN YEANG, Malaysia Dominic Schwarz, Switzerland Bruno Buljan, Croatia Bartlomiej Zawalski, Poland Shovon...

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  • Best Girl IPhO 2012. Photo: Henry Teigar

    Special Prizes

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
    Prizes of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies Jeevana Priya Inala, India Hengyun Zhou, People`s Republic of China Prize of European Physical Society Attila Szabó    Hungary Special Price for the Best Girl IPhO 2012 Alexandra Vassiljeva, Russia Special Price for the best Estonian student Jaan...

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  • The president of the IPhO - Hans Jordens. Photo: Henry Teigar

    The president of the IPhO: “A very gifted child can pop up anywhere in the world”

    Published on July 24, 2012 | No Comments
    In the middle of the afterparty Hans Jordens, the president of the IPhO, was willing to answer some of the questions that IPhO media was anxious to hear about. Are you satisfied with the final outcome of the competition (bearing in mind also the arrangements)?...

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  • Best girl, Alexandra Vasilyeva: “I want to live my life to the fullest!”

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  • All good things come to an end

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  • Volunteers of IPhO: “Sleepless nights, missing persons and lots of milk!”

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  • Absolute winner Attila Szabo: “Preparing for IPhO takes years.”

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  • Young and brave

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  • A successful week for the Estonian delegation

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  • Next year in Denmark

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  • Feynman’s corner: solutions

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  • Gold medalists

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    Anete Sammler
    Brenda Rauniste
    Kristiina Stõkova
    Liisi Sünd
    Minna-Triin Kohv
    Saile Mägi

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    Andres Mihkelson
    Henry Teigar
    Karl Veskus
    Merilin Kalavus
    Merily Salura
    Siim Pille

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