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
We speak with her family and archivist about Goldhaber’s scientific legacy
Read article: Celebrating the life of the pioneering nuclear physicist Gertrude Goldhaber
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: Helen Edwards: pioneer of Fermilab’s Tevatron
In this podcast we chat with an expert in climate change attribution
Read article: How we know climate change causes extreme weather, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Higgs-boson discovery
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: The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron
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: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: the woman who found hydrogen in the stars
Michael Riordan reveals how physicists and programmers played important roles in shaping the current wave of globalization
Read article: Going global: the world the Web has wrought
