Read article: Credit where credit’s due?
Credit where credit’s due?
Magdolna Hargittai gets to the bottom of the debate on whether female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu should have received a share of the 1957 Nobel prize
Read article: Credit where credit’s due?
Read article: Those puzzling infinities
Those puzzling infinities
Davide Castelvecchi reviews Frank Close’s The Infinity Puzzle
Read article: Introducing the higgson
Introducing the higgson
Gordon Fraser and Michael Riordan explain why the Higgs boson should be called simply the "higgson"
Read article: Peter Higgs in the spotlight
Peter Higgs in the spotlight
Peter Higgs speaks to Physics World about his life in science and the search for the eponymous boson in a special audio interview
Read article: When physics was ‘made in the USA’
When physics was ‘made in the USA’
Manjit Kumar reviews David Cassidy's A Short History of Physics in the American Century
Read article: Quantum guidebooks
Quantum guidebooks
Robert P Crease surveys the many tour guides to the quantum world
Read article: Between the lines
Between the lines
Books about transits of Venus, scientific tattoos and world-changing equations, reviewed by Margaret Harris
Read article: When Creativity met Necessity
When Creativity met Necessity
Roger Bridgman reviews Mad Like Tesla and How James Watt Invented the Copier
Read article: Atmospheric tales
Atmospheric tales
Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial
Read article: Venus: it’s now or never
Venus: it’s now or never
As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events
