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James Stirling
Today I got the terrible news of the untimely death of Professor James Stirling. A distinguished particle physicist and until August the Provost of Imperial College London, he will be remembered with fondness and admiration by many. Even astronomers – … Continue reading →
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Ten years after the “Big Bang”
Ten years ago it was Wednesday, and at 10:28 in the morning Geneva time the first protons had just made the 27 km journey through the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The media referred to it as “Big Bang Day”, and … Continue reading →
Richard Feynman’s Centenary
Interview with Adam Rutherford on BBC Inside Science.
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Physics Stories, Science
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Tagged audio, BBC, Inside Science, Richard Feynman
Brilliant Blunders: the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists
At the Guardian.
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Tagged Perimeter Institute, video
