Read article: Profiles of genius and persecution
Profiles of genius and persecution
Dan Falk asks if anything unites the many Jewish successful physicists of the 20th century
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Read article: Profiles of genius and persecution
Read article: Bruno Touschek: the physicist who escaped the Nazi Holocaust to build particle colliders
Bruno Touschek: the physicist who escaped the Nazi Holocaust to build particle colliders
Giulia Pancheri describes the extraordinary life of the physicist Bruno Touschek
Read article: Science in a dictatorship
Science in a dictatorship
Gordon Fraser reviews The German Physical Society in the Third Reich
Read article: Making sense of Oppenheimer
Making sense of Oppenheimer
Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
Read article: Einstein letter fetches record amount at auction
Einstein letter fetches record amount at auction
‘Private buyer with a passion for theoretical physics’ bids £170,000
Read article: Subtle are Einstein’s thoughts
Subtle are Einstein’s thoughts
Einstein, God and religion
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books on bubble physics, quantum exiles and arty photos of particle accelerators, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: Fermi: physicist with a capital F
Fermi: physicist with a capital F
The first in-depth English-language biography of one of the heavyweights of modern physics – Enrico Fermi – has been long awaited, says Marina Cobal
Read article: Hans Bethe’s early life
Hans Bethe’s early life
Jeremy Bernstein reviews Nuclear Forces: the Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Read article: Scepticism beyond pessimism
Scepticism beyond pessimism
Andrew Glester reviews For Small Creatures Such As We by Sasha Sagan and interviews the author
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