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IBM innovations, Mississippi model and Nobel Prize preview

27 Sep 2018 James Dacey

In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, industry editor Margaret Harris discusses her recent visit to IBM’s R&D facility in Hursley, UK. She explains why industrial research is still a fruitful place for physics research, even though it is sometimes overlooked by the academic community.

Later in the podcast, general physics editor Hamish Johnston is joined by multimedia editor James Dacey. The pair discuss the new film on this website the 1000 m2 model of the Mississippi delta, housed at the Center for River Studies at Louisiana State University. Johnston and Dacey also give their predictions for the Nobel Prize for Physics, which will be announced next Tuesday.

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