New frontiers in superconductivity
Metallic, magnetic and organic materials are making novel superconductors
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Guglielmo Marconi: radio star
Guglielmo Marconi was not strictly a scientist but he did launch the wireless-communications industry
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Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist
Some 100 years after the father of the uncertainty principle was born, historians of science continue to debate the role that Werner Heisenberg played during the Second World War
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Condensates reap Nobel reward
The creation of the first Bose-Einstein condensate in a gas has been rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics just six years after the breakthrough was made
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Nobel population 1901–1950: anatomy of a scientific elite
Next month sees the centenary of the award of the first Nobel prizes. How representative are the physics Nobel laureates of the international physics community?
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So just how good is your salary?
Most people choose to study physics because of a fascination with the subject, not because they think it is likely to earn them lots of money. But even physicists are curious on this topic
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Changing your career direction
Matin Durrani looks at how to point your career in a new direction and finds that it helps to think carefully about your options before a crisis strikes
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The Institute of Physics salary survey
How much do members earn and what do they think of their careers? Edwin Cartlidge picks out the highlights from the Institute's latest compilation of members' earnings
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Love and the two-body problem
For physicists who have fallen for the charms of one another, finding two permanent physics jobs in the same place is one of the toughest challenges they face
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Career options for physicists
From rocket science to rock stardom, physics prepares you for a wide range of careers
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