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.

Thursday, 24 November 2016

The IBA prize for applied nuclear science

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I noticed today in the electronic newsletter from the European Physical Society that the call for nominations for the IBA prize is ment...

Friday, 18 November 2016

"Do while" annoyances

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Since I'm teaching a computing class this morning, here is a purely computer programming related post. One of the students was havin...

Thursday, 3 November 2016

New isotope of lead discovered

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Yesterday, the journal Physical Review C published a paper announcing the observation of the isotope 178 Pb – an isotope of lead with 9...

Books: An update

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At the end of 2015 I posted about the books that I head read during the year . I resolved to read more in 2016, and have managed to do ...

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Another MPhys publication

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In an automatic list of announcements of papers published in the latest edition of Journal of Physics G, I noticed a paper co-authored b...

Monday, 3 October 2016

Seaborg in the Times Crossword

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Yesterday, the Times Crossword featured the clue "Old US scientist bags ore for breaking down (7)". Seasoned solvers of crypti...

Thursday, 22 September 2016

"Until general disarmament has been achieved..."

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I moved house a little over a year ago, so naturally many of my things are still in boxes piled up around the place. Rifling through on...

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