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Strange Genius: The Life and Times of Paul Dirac

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Print edition: July 2001

Post-deadline

Liquid marbles roll out

Ultraviolet nanolaser

A new vision for X-rays

News & Analysis

Canada bids to host ITER fusion project

Gamma-ray experiment hits new highs

Small tyre firm bursts into the big time

Protest against astrology

Riso adjusts to new future

Mars ahoy!

Leicester space centre blasts off

Catching a piece of the Sun

Society seen as biggest threat to storage

Senate switch thwarts Bush's strategies

Raymond Andrew

Europe gets advisory council

Big bucks for physicists

Forum

Growing a technology business

Critical Point

Labs as crucibles of uncertainty

Feedback

The temperature of heaven and hell

Reviews

Henry Rowland: the ruler of the grating

From garden shed to global giant

Mad About Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes and Curiousities, Christopher Jargodski and Franklin Potter

Magnetic Ventures: The Story of Oxford Instruments, Audrey Wood

From garden shed to global giant

The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, George Kean Sweenam

Henry Rowland: the ruler of the grating