The legend of the leaning tower
What did Galileo really do in Pisa?
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Kepler and Tycho Brahe: the odd couple
The story of two, very different, astronomers
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William Thomson: king of Victorian physics
The life and times of Lord Kelvin
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The Einstein File: J Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist
Why did the US spy on Einstein?
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The double-slit experiment
Who performed the most beautiful experiment in physics?
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Was Aristotle the first physicist?
Many think that the Greek philosopher impeded science - but Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees
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A history of the electron with no holes
A full review by Per Dahl, formerly at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, appears in the December issue of Physics World. Somewhat for convenience, the simplistic answer to the question “...
Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist
Some 100 years after the father of the uncertainty principle was born, historians of science continue to debate the role that Werner Heisenberg played during the Second World War
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Nobel population 1901–1950: anatomy of a scientific elite
Next month sees the centenary of the award of the first Nobel prizes. How representative are the physics Nobel laureates of the international physics community?
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Secret letters cast light on Copenhagen
Letters by Niels Bohr that have been kept secret since his death could explain the mystery of why Werner Heisenberg visited him in Copenhagen in 1941
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