1. SHORT HISTORY OF THE

(IPhO) is an international physics competi-tion for secondary school students. The first such competition was organised by Prof. Czesław Śoisłowski in Warsaw (Poland) in 1967. Since that time the International Physics Olympiads have been organised, with few exceptions that will be discussed later, in a different country every year. The possibility of organising the Inter-national Physics Olympiads was suggested before 1967. It was clear that the Inter-national Physics Olympiads should be an annual event like the International Math-ematics Olympiad, which was already in existence; organised in 1959. The success o