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The European Physical Society is a unique, international organisation for the promotion by all suitable means of the advancement of physics throughout Europe and its neighbouring countries. In it physicists from 26 countries ranging from Ireland in the west to the Soviet Union in the east and from Norway in the north to Israel in the south combine together without government sponsorship to organise the affairs of the society in a democratic way.
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