Read article 'Paul Dirac: a genius in the history of physics'
This year is the 100th anniversary of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who was born in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902 and died on 20 October 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida, US. Richard Dalitz looks back ov...
Read article 'Supergravity celebrates quarter of a century'
The first complete theory of supergravity appeared 25 years ago last autumn. To mark the occasion, the State University of New York at Stony Brook held a workshop on the subject in December.
Read article 'Heavy Flavour Physics – Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics'
A graduate text based on lectures originally presented at the 55th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at St Andrews in 2001.
Read article 'Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries'
Robert Cailliau reviews in 2002 Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries.
Read article 'CERN’s summer student programme turns 40'
It was in 1962, when Victor Weisskopf was CERN director-general, that the laboratory’s summer student programme began.
Read article 'Latin American physics centre celebrates 40th anniversary'
The Rio de Janeiro-based Centro Latinoamericano de Física (CLAF) celebrated its 40th anniversary on 26 March. Founded under the auspices of UNESCO following the CERN model, CLAF was established to pr...
Read article 'The Atom in the History of Human Thought'
Horst Wachsmuth reviews in 2002 The Atom in the History of Human Thought.
Read article 'Handbook of Radiation Effects'
Marco Silari reviews in 2002 Handbook of Radiation Effects.
Read article 'Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang (2nd edition)'
This edition is a revised and updated version of the King's School, Canterbury teacher's popular high-school introduction to particle physics and cosmology.
Read article 'Radioactive beam research notches up 50 years'
Research using accelerated beams of short-lived nuclei has grown into a major activity. Karsten Riisager reports from a recent symposium in Copenhagen that looked at the status and future prospects of...
