Kosayu Physics Teacher

As a Kolose Santo Yusup's student, I have two physics teacher who help me in physics very much. They are Mr.Gatot and Mr.Wahyu (Mr. We).
* Mr.Gatot
He is the best physics teacher according to me. Because he taught me and my friends
when we present at OSN( Olimpiade Sains Nasional ). Although holiday, he still
taught us and gave spirit to us. Thank you Mr. Gatot.

* Mr.Wahyu(Mr.We)
He knows the physics concept very well. His exercise and test make student become
crazy. But he make us like physics. Thank you Mr.We.

All Nobel Laureates in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 103 times to 187 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009. John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 186 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on each name to see the Nobel Laureate's page.
* 2009 - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith
* 2008 - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa
* 2007 - Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
* 2006 - John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
* 2005 - Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
* 2004 - David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
* 2003 - Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett
* 2002 - Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
* 2001 - Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
* 2000 - Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby
* 1999 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
* 1998 - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
* 1997 - Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
* 1996 - David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
* 1995 - Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
* 1994 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
* 1993 - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
* 1992 - Georges Charpak
* 1991 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
* 1990 - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
* 1989 - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
* 1988 - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
* 1987 - J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller
* 1986 - Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
* 1985 - Klaus von Klitzing
* 1984 - Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
* 1983 - Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler
* 1982 - Kenneth G. Wilson
* 1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
* 1980 - James Cronin, Val Fitch
* 1979 - Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
* 1978 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
* 1977 - Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck
* 1976 - Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting
* 1975 - Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater
* 1974 - Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
* 1973 - Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson
* 1972 - John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer
* 1971 - Dennis Gabor
* 1970 - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
* 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
* 1968 - Luis Alvarez
* 1967 - Hans Bethe
* 1966 - Alfred Kastler
* 1965 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
* 1964 - Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
* 1963 - Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
* 1962 - Lev Landau
* 1961 - Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer
* 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
* 1959 - Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
* 1958 - Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm
* 1957 - Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
* 1956 - William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain
* 1955 - Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
* 1954 - Max Born, Walther Bothe
* 1953 - Frits Zernike
* 1952 - Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell
* 1951 - John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton
* 1950 - Cecil Powell
* 1949 - Hideki Yukawa
* 1948 - Patrick M.S. Blackett
* 1947 - Edward V. Appleton
* 1946 - Percy W. Bridgman
* 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli
* 1944 - Isidor Isaac Rabi
* 1943 - Otto Stern
* 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1939 - Ernest Lawrence
* 1938 - Enrico Fermi
* 1937 - Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson
* 1936 - Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson
* 1935 - James Chadwick
* 1934 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1933 - Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac
* 1932 - Werner Heisenberg
* 1931 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1930 - Sir Venkata Raman
* 1929 - Louis de Broglie
* 1928 - Owen Willans Richardson
* 1927 - Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson
* 1926 - Jean Baptiste Perrin
* 1925 - James Franck, Gustav Hertz
* 1924 - Manne Siegbahn
* 1923 - Robert A. Millikan
* 1922 - Niels Bohr
* 1921 - Albert Einstein
* 1920 - Charles Edouard Guillaume
* 1919 - Johannes Stark
* 1918 - Max Planck
* 1917 - Charles Glover Barkla
* 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1915 - William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg
* 1914 - Max von Laue
* 1913 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
* 1912 - Gustaf Dalén
* 1911 - Wilhelm Wien
* 1910 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
* 1909 - Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun
* 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
* 1907 - Albert A. Michelson
* 1906 - J.J. Thomson
* 1905 - Philipp Lenard
* 1904 - Lord Rayleigh
* 1903 - Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
* 1902 - Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
* 1901 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Why Study Phisics?

Physics is crucial to understanding the world around us, the world inside us, and the world beyond us. It is the most basic and fundamental science. Physics challenges our imaginations with concepts like relativity and string theory, and it leads to great discoveries, like computers and lasers, that change our lives.

Physics encompasses the study of the universe from the largest galaxies to the smallest subatomic particles. Moreover, it’s the basis of many other sciences, including chemistry, oceanography, seismology, and astronomy. All are easily accessible with a bachelor’s degree in physics.

The importance of physics isn’t limited to the “hard sciences.” Increasingly, physicists are turning their talents to molecular biology, biochemistry, and biology itself. Even medicine has a niche for physicists, and since medical physicists are hard to come by, they are much in demand.

Physics also undergirds many new technologies. Cell phones, the Internet, and MRIs are only a few examples of the physics-based technological developments that have revolutionized our world. Many theoretical and experimental physicists work as engineers, and many electrical and mechanical engineers have physics degrees.

A physics education equips a person to work in many different and interesting places—in industrial and government labs, on college campuses, and in the astronaut corps. In addition, many physics grads leave the lab behind and work at newspapers and magazines, in government, and even on Wall Street—places where their problem-solving abilities and analytical skills are great assets.

So—physics is interesting, relevant, and it can prepare you for great jobs in a wide variety of places. Shouldn’t you take a physics course?

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Organizational of TOFI

Advisor
Direktur Pembinaan SMA,
Departemen Pendidikan Nasional
President
Prof. Yohanes Surya, Ph.D
Theorytical Traning
Hendra Kwee, Ph.D
Experimental Training
Sastra Kusuma Wijaya, Ph.D
Yoseph Subono B.Sc
Alumni Association
Oki Gunawan, Ph.d

Vision and Mision of TOFI

Vision
To create a Nobel Laurates of Physics
Mission
To replace the paradigm among students that physics is scar

TOFI in Indonesia

TOFI in Indonesia

Working together with the ministry of Education we conducted selection processes in much larger scale spanning across 27 provinces in Indonesia. Around 1400 students took part in the preliminary test organized in October. Subsequently 24 students were selected. They received several books and study materials several months before the next qualifying round. Afterwards they were invited in Febuary to take the next qualifying exam in Jakarta. The top 6 students were picked from the result.. We chose a very conducive place near mountainside to conduct the intensive training camp. The students seemed to enjoy the place very much. The isolation of the training camp also provided less distraction to them. Apart from that, they seemed to develop a better diet as they gained an average weight of 3 kg. Every week they were given a five hours test, or sometimes it might take up to ten hours. The result from the 1995 Olympiad was very encouraging. The team returned with one silver, one bronze, and three honorable mentions from Australia.

In 1996-1998 the physics Olympiad was getting more popular. Many students showed their keen interest to participating. We saw a positive trend where more rural students managed to enter the final qualifying round and even being selected into the core team. It was a certainly good outcome of the TOFI activities as typically the education standard was quite poor in rural Indonesia. It was very important to give these bright your scholars a good opportunity to excel despite their economic disadvantages. Some top local universities offered direct admission to our top eight students. It had been a very appealing incentive to the students as the admissions to the Indonesian national universities was extremely competitive.

In that period the results seemed to dwell on bronze medals and honorable mentions. As we were keen to further improve the result, we had identified that one of the weakest point was in the experimental exam. So far none of our student could score more than 70%. Therefore in 1999 we paid special attention on the experimental training. We were fortunate to have a group of energetic TOFI alumni that helped in preparing the experimental training. They set up a series of 30 challenging experimental modules fora two weeks training program. The effort was eventually paid off. In the 30th IPhO Made Agus Wirawan, the gold medallist, broke the TOFI record by obtaining 17.6 (88%) out of 20 points in the experiment. There was an increase of 10% - 15% for evey student compared to the previous years performance. The team returned with one gold, one silver, two bronze medals and one honorable mention making it the best finish ever.