{"id":2357,"date":"2012-10-18T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T08:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T08:15:35","slug":"one-million-jobs-in-the-uk-rely-on-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/18\/one-million-jobs-in-the-uk-rely-on-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"One million  jobs in the UK rely on physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Physics is central to the economy of the UK. Whether through the application of novel research and technologies, or through the skills and abilities of physics-trained workers, physics drives businesses and innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Professor Sir Peter Knight President, Institute of Physics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a new report by the Institute of Physics, about 4% of  of employees in the UK work in companies that could not exist without a knowledge of physics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/65\/PCB_Spectrum.jpg\" alt=\"spectrum\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image by Bill Bertram<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the definition of a &#8220;physics based company&#8221; is wide. Supermarket checkouts would not work without laser physics, for example. However, the study only takes into account the companies that  <em>would be unable to exist without ability to respond and adapt to latest advances in research<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A good example here would be Oxford Instruments, whose annual turnover of \u00a3337 million is almost entirely &#8220;physics based&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The full report <em>The Importance of Physics to the UK Economy<\/em> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/publications\/iop\/2012\/file_58713.pdf\" title=\"report\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (opens a PDF).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/news\/12\/oct\/page_58715.html\" title=\"IOP News\" target=\"_blank\">One million UK jobs depend on physics<\/a>, IOP News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics is central to the economy of the UK. Whether through the application of novel research and technologies, or through the skills and abilities of physics-trained workers, physics drives businesses and innovation. Professor Sir Peter Knight President, Institute of Physics According to a new report by the Institute of Physics, about 4% of of employees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/18\/one-million-jobs-in-the-uk-rely-on-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One million  jobs in the UK rely on physics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}