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Electromagnetic software accelerates ahead

26 May 2009 Hamish Johnston

Hamish Johnston explains how software born in an accelerator lab is now being used for everything from medical physics to invisibility cloaks

Thomas Weiland
In 1975 Thomas Weiland was a physicist at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany when he sta

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