Read article: The giant and the thief
The giant and the thief
Thomas Levenson describes Newton's battle with arch-counterfeiter William Chaloner
Read article: The giant and the thief
Read article: The trials of Galileo
The trials of Galileo
Owen Gingerich recounts Galileo's famous court hearings of 1632
Read article: Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Matthew Jones on the inseparability of the arts and sciences in early 19th-century France
Read article: Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93
Read article: Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics
Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics
Vitaly Ginzburg – one of the most prominent Russian theoretical physicists of the 20th century – talks exclusively about his achievements in physics, his distrust of the church...
Read article: Uranium bombs
Uranium bombs
Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age
Read article: A very good Englishman
A very good Englishman
Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls
Read article: Secrets and spies
Secrets and spies
Jeff Hughes probes the early history of nuclear weapons
Read article: Developing-world research hub unveils new director
Developing-world research hub unveils new director
Costa Rica-born physicist to head the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Read article: Profiles of genius and persecution
Profiles of genius and persecution
Dan Falk asks if anything unites the many Jewish successful physicists of the 20th century
