Read article: Politics or physics?
Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
Read article: Politics or physics?
Read article: Uncertainty reigns over Heisenberg’s measurement analogy
Uncertainty reigns over Heisenberg’s measurement analogy
Physicists ponder quantum pioneer's original intention
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Physics World reviews A Short, Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt and Rocket Girl by George Morgan
Vintage snaps from space history
UCL publishes archive of images from the history of space exploration
Read article: Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Paula Findlen examines the life of arguably the first female professional physicist
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
A play about Newton and books about Internet spam and quantum randomness, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: The enigmatic life of J Robert Oppenheimer
The enigmatic life of J Robert Oppenheimer
Learn more about this pivotal figure in the history of modern physics from his biographer Ray Monk
Read article: Physicist Kenneth Wilson dies at 77
Physicist Kenneth Wilson dies at 77
Nobel laureate developed theory of phase transitions
Read article: The new idols
The new idols
Robert P Crease wonders who would today be on Francis Bacon's list of "idols" that hamper our study of nature
Read article: Structural disputes
Structural disputes
A biography of the mathematical biophysicist Dorothy Wrinch, reviewed by Athene Donald
