Do you know your stuff?
Here I am, sitting quietly and comfortably in front of my tiny wooden desk, typing these lines on the keyboard of my laptop computer, peeping from time to time through the light linen of the curtain a...
Consultancy as a career
Reviewed by Allan Newton This is an interesting book that analyses the career options of scientists who become consultants, whether in a self-employed capacity or in a large consultancy firm. It is a ...
Highlights of the year
This year saw many advances in physics. PhysicsWeb has compiled a list of ten highlights (in no particular order) of 1997
Off the beaten track
Point your Web browser at http://www.agacooker.com/disc.html and you will learn how Gustav Dalen, the Swedish inventor who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912, invented the Aga cooker to release h...
Life after Schrödinger
It is difficult to imagine how a discovery in physics could reverberate around the world in the same way that Dolly the cloned sheep has in recent weeks. As biologists clone sheep and monkeys – ...
