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, 22 June 2017

Cross-country physicist

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Yesterday I had an enjoyable trip to Birmingham to visit a student on a sandwich-year placement. He is working at Cross-Country Trains,...

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

NuPECC Long Range Plan 2017

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Every few years, the Nuclear Physics European Coordination Committee (NuPECC) publishes a Long Range Plan (LRP) to try to give a unifie...

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

More new isotopes

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Since I subscribe to Michael Thoennessen's isotope newsletter from his Discovery of Isotopes Project , I learn that two papers have ju...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Towards the end of the Semester

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My blogging rate has slowed down somewhat of late, related I think to the subject matter of the last post. Actually, it's probably ...

Friday, 12 May 2017

National Mental Health Awareness Week

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I hadn't been aware until earlier in the week that this is National Mental Health Awareness Week . There seem to be so many special e...

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

A Euratom Update

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As we (in the UK) continue in a period of much uncertainty about the future for our relationship with the rest of the European Union, a ...

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Walter Greiner 1935 - 2016

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I don't think I posted anything here last year noting the death of Walter Greiner. He was a major figure in nuclear physics in all ...

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