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Hamish Johnston

I am an online editor of Physics World. I did a PhD in condensed-matter physics at McMaster University in Canada. I am still fascinated by what is an extremely rich and varied subject that I believe is ignored by the media (Physics World excepted, of course). As a result, I’m happiest when I’m blogging about topological insulators, the latest quasiparticle or some other quirk of condensed matter. So, if you spot something weird and wonderful in solid-state physics, please get in touch. In my spare time I am a Scout leader.

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Cats and dogs with their tails tied together

Cats and dogs with their tails tied together

Yesterday I went to a news conference given by five physicists who believe that materials called “block copolymers” could help the electronics industry continue its relentless drive towards smaller and smaller devices — and even help battle some cancers. Block copolymers are a hot topic in nanotechnology because of their ability to self-organize into tiny […]

Stingy Uncle Sam

Stingy Uncle Sam

Here I am doing my bit to persuade the US government that it should give a little more money to the nation’s physicists. The photo was taken by the APS’s Tawanda Johnson, who was trying to get American physicists to write letters to their members of Congress asking them to support the provision of “supplemental […]

Cold Fusion as Policy Posterboy

Cold Fusion as Policy Posterboy

The March Meeting has everything, including a session on cold fusion. It is almost 20 years since Pons and Fleischmann told the world that they had seen nuclear fusion in what is essentially an electro-chemistry experiment. The idea is that if you packed enough deuterium into a piece of palladium metal, the deuterium nuclei would […]

Streetcar to the Garden District

Streetcar to the Garden District

It’s a lovely day in New Orleans and I managed to get a sunburn walking around the French Quarter this morning….I suppose I’m a real redneck now! Our hotel is right across the road from the convention centre and there are now lots of physicists milling about — the excitement is building. Like myself, many […]

Off to New Orleans

Off to New Orleans

Michael and I are leaving for New Orleans bright and early tomorrow morning — along with five other colleagues from IOP Publishing. Our journey begins in Bristol at about 9.30 in the morning and if all goes well, we will arrive in New Orleans just before midnight (local time). I reckon that’s about 21 hours […]

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