Category Archives: Physics

Our “Map of the Invisible”

Posted on 16/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Interview with John Humphrys on BBC Radio 4 Today programme, prior to the book launch at the Royal Institution. Here’s my lecture from the Royal Institution: And here is the Q&A afterwards:

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Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

Book review in Publishers’ Weekly. Butterworth (Most Wanted Particle), a CERN alum and professor of physics at University College London, explains everything particle physics from antimatter to Z bosons in this charming trek through a landscape of “the otherwise invisible.” … Continue reading →

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Book review

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Jon Butterworth

via A Map of the Invisible – Journeys into Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth

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After 40 years of studying the strong nuclear force, a revelation

Posted on 28/12/2017 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.  

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