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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Politics or physics?
Gerard DeGroot reviews Churchill’s Bomb, Graham Farmelo’s new book on Winston Churchill and the atomic bomb project
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Uncertainty reigns over Heisenberg’s measurement analogy
Physicists ponder quantum pioneer's original intention
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Between the lines
Physics World reviews A Short, Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt and Rocket Girl by George Morgan
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Vintage snaps from space history
UCL publishes archive of images from the history of space exploration
Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Paula Findlen examines the life of arguably the first female professional physicist
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A play about Newton and books about Internet spam and quantum randomness, reviewed by Margaret Harris
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The enigmatic life of J Robert Oppenheimer
Learn more about this pivotal figure in the history of modern physics from his biographer Ray Monk
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Physicist Kenneth Wilson dies at 77
Nobel laureate developed theory of phase transitions
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