Seeing through the ‘two cultures’
Matthew Jones on the inseparability of the arts and sciences in early 19th-century France
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Vitaly Ginzburg: 1916–2009
Eminent Nobel-prize-winning Russian theorist dies on 8 November aged 93
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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...
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Uranium bombs
Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age
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A very good Englishman
Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls
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Secrets and spies
Jeff Hughes probes the early history of nuclear weapons
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Developing-world research hub unveils new director
Costa Rica-born physicist to head the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Profiles of genius and persecution
Dan Falk asks if anything unites the many Jewish successful physicists of the 20th century
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British prime minister apologizes to Alan Turing after petition
Gordon Brown recognizes 'appalling' treatment of Second World War code breaker
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Aage Niels Bohr: 1922–2009
Nobel laureate Aage Niels Bohr dies at the age of 87
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