Read article: Hertha Ayrton: pioneering inventor and suffragette
Anita Chandran explores the remarkable life of Hertha Ayrton – a physicist, mathematician, engineer, inventor and suffragette whose work benefitted the lives of many
Read article: Celebrating the life of the pioneering nuclear physicist Gertrude Goldhaber
We speak with her family and archivist about Goldhaber’s scientific legacy
Read article: Helen Edwards: pioneer of Fermilab’s Tevatron
Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelerator science. Anita Chandran finds out more about her contributions to particle physics
Read article: How we know climate change causes extreme weather, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Higgs-boson discovery
In this podcast we chat with an expert in climate change attribution
Read article: The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron
The University of Liverpool’s synchrocyclotron helped define physics in the 20th century, yet little trace of it remains. Rob Lea looks into the history of this lost machine
Read article: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars
Sidney Perkowitz on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, from her stellar astronomical findings to her struggle with bias against women in the early 20th century
Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization
Read article: Two scientists’ debate over whether the universe had a beginning – and how the elements were created
Laura Hiscott reviews Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate by Paul Halpern
Read article: Brilliant polymath, troubled person: how John von Neumann shaped our world
Andrew Robinson reviews The Man from the Future: the Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Read article: Life beyond the Nobel: Russell Hulse’s path from binary pulsar discoverer to plasma physicist
Margaret Harris examines the circumstances that shaped the career of 1993 physics Nobel laureate Russell Hulse
