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.

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Open Access

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There's be quite some talk about Open Access across the internet recently, largely thanks to the acceptance of the Finch Report , makin...

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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Tax avoidance

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I just had the pleasure of talking to an estate agent, who was trying to put me in touch with a company that lets one avoid stamp duty, usi...

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Time management

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In principle, when attending a conference, it would always be nice to prepare the talk carefully, long in advance, preferably before tra...

Monday, 2 July 2012

Rila Mountain Workshop & Chaos

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Last week, I was in the Rila Mountains in Bulgaria for a nuclear physics workshop. Like ever, I find myself newly-invigorated with the f...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

The Nature of Tin-100

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Some large fraction of experimental work in nuclear physics concerns exploring the boundaries of what nuclei exist in nature and how they b...

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Tuesday, 19 June 2012

End of the year

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It's that time of year when semester has just finished. The undergraduate students have left, and we have had our first examination bo...

Friday, 1 June 2012

C. S. Wu

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Having noticed in my last post , somewhat after the fact, that it would have been the 90th birthday of Andrei Sakharov recently, I notice t...

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