Category Archives: Physics Stories

Brilliant Blunders: the mistakes made by some of history’s greatest scientists

Posted on 01/06/2016 by

At the Guardian.

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Weasels in the Large Hadron Collider, and self-throwing dead cats

Posted on 01/05/2016 by

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Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by

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Inside the Rad Lab

Posted on 09/07/2015 by

Review of Michael Hiltzik’s Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex in Nature.

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The genesis and renaissance of general relativity

Posted on 23/06/2015 by

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Emmy Noether, hero of symmetry and conservation: Public lecture with Peter Olver and Ruth Gregory

Posted on 22/06/2015 by

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In particular – hope and dreams

Posted on 09/06/2015 by

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Niels Bohr: Life Behind the Physics

Posted on 03/06/2015 by

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Life and Physics in Pictures No. 3

Posted on 24/01/2015 by

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A Selfish turn around CERN

Posted on 17/01/2015 by

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