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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Your best unit
Robert P Crease discusses the origin of some units of measurement, and asks for your favourites
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Dreams of a quantum pioneer
Gino Segrè looks at the relationship between Pauli and Jung
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Controversy bubbles over particle physics prize
Award to neutrino experiment omits key contribution, say physicists
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In praise of Darwin
Darwin was no physicist, but his approach to science will be familiar to us
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Darwin’s legacy
Born 200 years ago, Charles Darwin is rightly celebrated for his work explaining the origin of species. But in setting a new standard for what an explanation of nature should be like, he also had a hu...
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‘Two cultures’ turns 50
Robert P Crease asks why the idea of the “two cultures”, coined by C P Snow 50 years ago, still feels so current — despite the book that promoted the idea being both d...
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Beautifully strange
John Enderby describes the life of the "strangest man": Paul Dirac
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Making physics popular
Writing about physics for the public involves more than just translating complex scientific ideas into simple language, says Robert P Crease
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