The future of particle physics: what can the past teach us?
Robert P Crease reports from a conference at CERN on particle physics in the 1980s and 1990s
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Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics
Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize
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The obscure physics theory that helped Chinese science emerge from the shadows
Robert P Crease reveals the curious twist in the development of Chinese physics in the 1960s
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The forgotten pioneers of computational physics
Iulia Georgescu highlights the forgotten pioneers of computational physics and calls for a wider appreciation of research software engineers
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Inge Lehmann: the ground-breaking seismologist who faced a rocky road to success
Kate Gardner reviews If I Am Right, and I Know I Am: Inge Lehmann, the Woman Who Discovered Earth’s Innermost Secret by Hanne Strager
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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him
Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates
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Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics
Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why
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Destroyers of the world: the physicists who built nuclear weapons
Andrew Robinson reviews Destroyer of Worlds: the Deep History of the Nuclear Age 1895–1965 by Frank Close
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Relive the two decades when physicists basked in the afterglow of the Standard Model
Robert P Crease previews the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics
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Overlooked pioneers from quantum history
This episode of Physics World Stories explores a new book that restores women to the early history of quantum mechanics
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