Category Archives: Physics Stories

Mathematical déjà vu, and Coffee

Posted on 02/08/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Inside the Rad Lab

Posted on 09/07/2015 by Jon Butterworth

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 Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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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 Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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