A lack of formal education, high-powered family connections and an unstoppable will to succeed helped Guglielmo Marconi to transmit the first radio signal across the Atlantic and launch the wireless-c...
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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
Read article: Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist
In 1924 the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose sent a paper to Einstein in which he derived the Planck law for black-body radiation by treating the photons as a gas of identical particles. Einstein ...
Read article: Condensates reap Nobel reward
On 10 December this year the Nobel Foundation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the award of the first Nobel prizes. As the winners of this year’s physics prize – Eric Cornell, Wolfg...
Read article: Nobel population 1901-50: anatomy of a scientific elite
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
Read article: So just how good is your salary?
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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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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From rocket science to rock stardom, physics prepares you for a wide range of careers
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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
Read article: Love and the two-body problem
Whether you are about to enter the job market for the first time or have been in the workplace for years, many of the same job-hunting skills apply, discovers Valerie Jamieson
Read article: How to get the job you really want
