Celebrating Louis Essen and the birth of atomic time
Plaque unveiled at the National Physical Laboratory
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Between the lines
Books about the physics community in Nazi Germany, the roots of radio astronomy and a whole lot of nothing, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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Rise and fall of an electrical genius
W Bernard Carlson's biography of Nikola Tesla begins well but descends along with its subject, according to reviewer David Goodstein
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Mathematics and prejudice
Edward Frenkel's love letter to the mathematics that captivates him is "a book to read to be inspired to learn maths" writes reviewer William Gasarch
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Our favourite pictures of 2013
From shape-shifting metals and evolving bubbles to ancient light
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Multimedia highlights of 2013
From a Nobel laureate in Bristol to a giant synchrotron in the Alps
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Wrong turns and dead ends
Len Fisher reviews a book about the mistakes made by great scientists throughout history, including Darwin, Kelvin and Einstein
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A romantic scientist
A "magnificent and superior" biography of the 19th-century Danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, reviewed by Anja Skaar Jacobsen
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Between the lines: Christmas special
Books about the mathematics in The Simpsons, vanishing starry nights, medical physics, big questions and some very weird life forms
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Making sense of Oppenheimer
Ray Monk’s landmark biography of “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, reviewed by Robert P Crease
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