Laura Bassi and the city of learning
Paula Findlen examines the life of arguably the first female professional physicist
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Between the lines
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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The new idols
Robert P Crease wonders who would today be on Francis Bacon's list of "idols" that hamper our study of nature
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Structural disputes
A biography of the mathematical biophysicist Dorothy Wrinch, reviewed by Athene Donald
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The electrical human
A book on the various roles that electricity plays in the human body, reviewed by Richard Clayton
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Why water prefers the single life
Researchers challenge idea that liquid water has two separate forms
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An iconoclast’s career
A new biography of Freeman Dyson, reviewed by Philip Anderson
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The quantum moment
Robert P Crease on why quantum mechanics is now as culturally significant as Newtonian mechanics
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