Read article 'Gateways into Electronics'
This textbook aims to enable students in engineering and the experimental sciences to gain a quantitative understanding of modern electronics and thus design their own instrumentation.
Read article 'Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger'
Robert Finkelstein reviews in 2000 Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger.
Read article 'Four decades in the proton stronghold'
Some 40 years after it was commissioned, and as well as continuing to provide particles to its own physics programme, Brookhaven's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron has a new future as the injector ...
Read article 'Synchrotron radiation is brighter than ever'
What began life as an unwanted energy loss has become a major research industry. Dominique Cornuéjols of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble looks at the history and accomplishm...
Read article 'Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects'
Now in paperback, this comprehensive textbook looks at a fruitful area of inflationary cosmological dynamics.
Read article 'Knots and Feynman Diagrams'
This book should be useful for theoretical physicists and for mathematicians.
Read article 'The Physics of Particle Detection'
Claus Grupen reviews in 2000 The Physics of Particle Detection.
Read article 'Wolfgang Pauli: never to be excluded'
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli, who was born in Vienna on 25 April 1900 and died in Zürich on 15 December 1958. Maurice Jacob describes several events that have been arrang...
Read article 'Rutherford – Scientist Supreme'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 2000 Rutherford - Scientist Supreme.
Read article 'Antimatter – the Ultimate Mirror'
Gordon Kane, reviews in 2000 Antimatter - the Ultimate Mirror.
