Personalities Blog Physicists doing stupid things The Physics World team celebrates April Fool’s Day with genuine tales of idiocy from our archives Read article: Physicists doing stupid things
Personalities Podcasts Tips for a rewarding career in physics Taking a closer look at the reality of life as a researcher Read article: Tips for a rewarding career in physics
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘Scientists don’t live in a vacuum’ PhD student Lucy Rowlands is creating an ever-expanding list of experiments to do when she can return to the lab Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Scientists don’t live in a vacuum’
Personalities News Condensed-matter physics pioneer Philip Anderson dies aged 96 Nobel laureate made many contributions to physics from high-temperature superconductivity to particle physics Read article: Condensed-matter physics pioneer Philip Anderson dies aged 96
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘I learned that my students miss the structure and support that the university provides’ Bill Atkinson reflects on how closing Trent University has affected his students Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I learned that my students miss the structure and support that the university provides’
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘I’m worried about paying for medical treatment’ For nanoscience PhD student Haley Harrison, a welcome chance to catch up on writing, analysis and family time coexists uneasily with concerns about health and finances Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘I’m worried about paying for medical treatment’
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘Welcome to my new role as university professor, housekeeper, cafeteria lady, school teacher…’ Joanne O'Meara at the University of Guelph reflects on an expanded job description Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Welcome to my new role as university professor, housekeeper, cafeteria lady, school teacher…’
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘During challenges, what you focus on matters a lot’ Suman Shrestha, a PhD student at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, admires the centre’s response to the pandemic Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘During challenges, what you focus on matters a lot’
Personalities Blog Physics in the pandemic: ‘connecting in a 3D virtual world’ Bonnie Tsim reflects on attending a recent conference in the virtual world Read article: Physics in the pandemic: ‘connecting in a 3D virtual world’
Personalities Analysis Freeman Dyson: unorthodox to the end Mathematical physicist was “the midwife to the birth of quantum electrodynamics” Read article: Freeman Dyson: unorthodox to the end