The tempestuous genius of Fritz Zwicky
Andrew Robinson reviews Zwicky: the Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe by John Johnson Jr
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How Feynman diagrams transformed physics
Robert P Crease examines why Feynman diagrams have proved so useful
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A relative journey
Andrew Robinson's Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist is a superb and compelling book, writes Ian Randall
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Occult arts and sceptical sciences
Philip Ball delves into the mystic and the physical worlds, in Physics and Psychics: the Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain by Richard Noakes
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A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2009 – the first quantum computer
Michael Banks looks at the Physics World 2009 Breakthrough of the Year and how research in quantum computing has moved on
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My favourite Nobel prize: weighing up neutrino mass
Tushna Commissariat explains why the discovery that neutrinos have mass is crucial to our understanding of the universe
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My favourite Nobel prize: opening a new chapter in low-temperature physics
Michael Banks explains the crucial role that liquid helium plays in experimental physics
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My favourite Nobel prize: Raman scattering is a universal fingerprint
From disease diagnosis to atomic physics, the discovery of Raman scattering has had a wide-ranging impact on science and technology, argues Anna Demming
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My favourite Nobel prize: the blue LED that lights up the modern world
Margaret Harris chooses an invention that has a huge impact on everyday life
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My favourite Nobel prize: creating Bose–Einstein condensates in the lab
Pioneering experiments with Bose–Einstein condensates proved a long-standing theory and ignited a revolution in atomic physics, argues Susan Curtis
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