Read article 'Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor'
James Gillies reviews in 2000 Weaving the Web - The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.
Read article 'The electron century'
In 1900 nobody could have even dreamed of the way in which science would evolve over the 100 years that followed. Theorist and science writer Frank Close reviews the past century and looks forward to...
Read article 'Physics in a cold climate'
This brief excerpt from the foreword of a new book of lectures in theoretical physics by Misha Shifman gives a penetrating insight into the traditions of Russian physics and the life of a theoretical ...
Read article 'Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics'
Over a decade later, the messages in these lectures remain fresh.
Read article 'Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering'
Maury Tigner reviews in 1999 Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering.
Read article 'Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy'
Gordon Fraser reviews in 1999 Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy.
Read article '40 years of CERN’s Proton Synchrotron'
CERN's Proton Synchrotron achieved its first high-energy beams 40 years ago. The pioneers at CERN had dared to follow a new, untested route in a bid to become the world's highest energy machine. Now, ...
Read article 'Silver celebration for Swiss pions'
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first particle beams at the former Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, now better known as the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Read article 'CPT and Lorentz Symmetry'
These are the proceedings of a meeting held at Bloomington, Indiana, November 1998, which look at the underlying spacetime symmetries of particle physics.
Read article 'Spectral Asymptotics in the Semi-Classical Limit'
This volume is part of the London Mathematical Society Lecture Note series.
