Remember, at the start of July, Futura You have announced that the international Olympiads of 2025 physics were soon to begin and this time in France, which was the organizing country for this year. These Olympiads, which we presented to you, took place from July 18 to 24 when we are in the International Year of Quantum Sciences and Technologies: 406 participants were there, from 87 countries.
France has several Nobel Prizes in recent physics, especially in the field of quantum physics precisely and these Olympiads took place with their support and interventions by Alain aspect and Serge Harroche, well known by their fundamental work on the famous EPR effect and the paradox of the cat of Schrödinger, involving the phenomena ofentanglemententanglement and quantum superposition.
From 18 to 24 July 2025, France welcomed the world for the 55e International Physics Olympiads (IPHO). This prestigious competition brought together a thousand participants, including 406 young people under 20 from 87 countries. In addition to very high level experimental and theoretical tests, the week was punctuated by cultural and scientific visits, conferences and friendly events. Back on this exceptional moment with the comments of the organizers, volunteers and sponsors. An event organized by the Company of Physics of France. © French Physics Society
Physics, a culture to face the challenges of the 21st century!
The physics Olympiads (Ipho for International Physics Olympiad, in English) are one of the seven international Olympiads of Sciences. Their purpose is to underline to the public and high school students the formative virtues of science as well as their importance for society – which has probably never been so important, while humanity, in the XXIe century, is faced with major challenges: global warmingglobal warmingimpact d’Homo sapiensHomo sapiens on the biodiversitybiodiversity and the environment (for example with coral reefs) or with epidemicepidemic irrationality and pseudo-science which gangrenegangrene modern societies, from climato-skepticism to opposition movements to vaccinesvaccines ArnmArnmto name a few.
Ipho are used to catalyze and encourage scientific vocations in physics and especially among young girls who are still underrepresented in this discipline. It is also a question of meeting hundreds of young people from all over the planet to show that physics is also a factor of communication and open -mindedness between the various cultures of the noosphere, with the activities of visiting the capital in which the Ipho are held.
They love physics! They excel in this material! Young people from around the world participate in the 55e Olympiads of Paris physics. What is this type of competition for? Perhaps to spot future Nobel prizes like the French Serge Haroche, the guest of the “wide angle” with Mathurin Rouan, silver medal at the Ipho 2023 in Japan. © TV5monde Info
A theoretical test and an experimental test
Each country participating in it sends a team made up to a maximum of five secondary students under the age of 20. Their members are then faced with two five -hour tests: a theoretical test, made up of three problems, and an experimental test, made up of one or two problems, developed by the host country.
Several medals (gold, silver, bronzebronze) and special prices are then awarded to more than half of the candidates with rankings, for example, only for theoretical tests or in combination with experimental tests. This year 2025, it was Hyeokjoon Lee, from South Korea, who obtained the best cumulative score in experimental and theoretical events and who received the Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Prize, sponsored by Qube Research & Technologies. You can click here to access the final results.
The Ipho 2025, the film! © French Physics Society
The French team is illustrated with four medals, two silver for Hugo Chartoire (Lycée Louis-le-Grand) and Marie Gaillard (Pierre-de-Fermat high school), two bronze for Aurélie Flieller (Sainte-Geneviève Lycée) and Adam Kubica-Djabri (Lycée Henri IVHenri IV), as well as an honorable mention for an Pha Dang, also from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Among the special prices awarded, let us mention the Claudine Hermann Prize, the prize for the best female performance, awarded to Aysenem Kakamyradova (Turkmenistan).
Finally and for the curious, let us indicate that the experimental test consisted in solving two problems: one around the measurement of Earth’s magnetic fieldEarth’s magnetic fieldthe other on the modelingmodeling lunar craters and the risks of stagnation.
The theoretical test, on the other hand, focused on the dynamics of galaxiesgalaxies In connection with dark matter and world theory, as well as the functioning of a barometric clock and the physics of champagne bubbles.
Nodeyeeye For two young high school students from Rouen, Eliott ColletCollet and Ulysse Devalland, who won the national competition ” 2 minutes of physics “Organized by the French Physics Society within the framework of the International Olympiads of Physics 2025. Their video was projected in front of more than 1,000 people, from more than 80 countries, and Nobel Prizes in Physics like Serge Haroche.
