Anita Chandran reviews Power Failure: the Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D Cohan
Read article: The demise of an electronics giant: the men who killed General Electric
Istvan Hargittai explains why Leo Szilard’s petition for atomic bombs to be stopped was not the only time his views changed
Read article: Leo Szilard: the physicist who envisaged nuclear weapons but later opposed their use
Andrew Robinson reviews Einstein: the Man and His Mind by Gary S Berger and Michael DiRuggiero
Read article: Einstein as you’ve never seen him before
Margaret Harris reviews The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb by Andrew Ramsey
Read article: Mentor and student: how Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant changed nuclear physics
Robert P Crease and Gino Elia reflect on the meaning of quantum mechanics
Read article: Bohr, Einstein and Bell: what the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics tells us about quantum mechanics
In this podcast we delve into the curious phenomenon at the heart of the 2022 prize
Read article: The weird and wonderful history of quantum entanglement that led to this year’s Nobel prize
Matin Durrani explores why the great New Zealand physicist was made a chemistry Nobel laureate
Read article: Breaking boundaries: how the physicist Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Matin Durrani reviews Schrödinger in Oxford by David Clary
Read article: Erwin Schrödinger: why did he fail at Oxford?
Anita Chandran and Elizabeth Bruton talk about inventor, scientist and suffragette, Hertha Ayrton
Read article: Hertha Ayrton: ‘An advocate for interdisciplinarity’
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: Hertha Ayrton: pioneering inventor and suffragette
