Nobel-prize-winning nuclear physicist Ben Roy Mottelson dies aged 95
Mottelson determined that certain nuclei could have asymmetrical shapes
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Fusion community mourns death of ITER boss Bernard Bigot aged 72
ITER deputy director Eisuke Tada takes over the French-based fusion project while the ITER Council searches for a long-term successor
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Lia Merminga becomes first woman to head Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Merminga will begin her term on 18 April and succeeds Nigel Lockyer
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Mildred Dresselhaus: a giant of nanoscience
Jess Wade reviews Carbon Queen: the Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock
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Off the beaten track: from school straight to working on the national physical standards
Laura Hiscott speaks to Perdi Potgieter, a research scientist at NPL who left school at 16 to do an apprenticeship
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Ask me anything: Donna Strickland – ‘I wouldn’t have wanted to know that I would win a Nobel prize’
Donna Strickland shared the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for her work developing the technique of “chirped pulse amplification”
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A most improbable physicist: how Hakeem Oluseyi survived a troubled early life and went on to succeed in physics
David Appell reviews A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
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Credit where it’s due: why not nominate yourself or a colleague for an Institute of Physics award?
Applications are open until 14 February 2022
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Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations
Sofia Sheikh is one of a handful of postdoctoral researchers who have specialized in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Webb, Stark and Schrödinger: how physics memorializes controversial figures
Naming phenomena after discoverers is traditional, but not necessarily permanent, says Matin Durrani
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