Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Friday, 3 October 2025

25 Years

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With the start of October the new academic year has started, and it brings with it the start of my 26th year at the University of Surrey. I...

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Friday, 26 September 2025

EuNPC in Caen

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I am at day 5 of 5 at the European Nuclear Physics Conference in Caen, France. It's the first time I've been at one of the confe...

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Homework is an uncountable noun

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It's that time of year when my children enter a new school year. In the case of one of them, it's a new school, too, as she enters ...

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Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Summer projects

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It is getting near the end of the summer holidays. Literally at the end for school kids with mine going back today and tomorrow, while uni...

Monday, 4 August 2025

Holiday in Oberstdorf

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I am on holiday for the week in Oberstdorf, Germany. It's a mountain resort in the very far south of the country and we are here becau...

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Another Office Move

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A year and a bit ago I had to move office at the University, after about 20 years in my previous office. I moved from 12BB03 to 02AA04 – ...

Friday, 11 July 2025

Unitary as a noun

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Since working in the field of quantum computing, I've had to get used to seeing the word unitary used as a noun to mean a unitary obje...

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