Read article 'Physicists and the decision to drop the bomb'
The tide of the Second World War turned in the Allies’ favour in 1943. In January the siege of Leningrad ended, and in February the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad and were in retreat before t...
Read article 'Fermilab: a laboratory at the frontier of research'
Since its foundation in 1967, creeping urbanization has taken away some of Fermilab's remoteness, but the famous buffalo still roam, and farm buildings evocative of frontier America dot the landscape ...
Read article 'How European physics reached across the Wall'
In the early 1960s, East German physicists collaborated with CERN, despite the restrictions that existed as a result of the Berlin Wall. Thomas Stange, author of a book on the history of the Zeuthen l...
Read article 'ESO reaches 40'
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 40th anniversary on 5 October
Read article 'High-Energy Particle Diffraction'
Elliot Leader reviews in 2002 High-Energy Particle Diffraction.
Read article 'Modern Cosmology'
Juan Garcia-Bellido reviews in 2002 Modern Cosmology.
Read article 'Space Radio Science'
Jim Cohen reviews in 2002 Space Radio Science.
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.
