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, 28 June 2018

Decisions, decisions

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My old office chair has broken. Part of the process of getting a new one is to pick a colour for the fabric. I was sent the attached swa...

Friday, 25 May 2018

Chadwick and Ellis at Ruhleben

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Earlier this week I took a book, "Biography of Physics" by George Gamow out of the University Library. It was published in 19...

Thursday, 17 May 2018

Sk8r Boi

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On Thursday evenings I have ice-skating lessons. I've been having them for a little over a year, now. When I started, they put me i...

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Virtual Tour of a Nuclear Accelerator Facility

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I've just spent the last couple of hours hosting a series of interviews between some of our Surrey MPhys students and a potential ho...

Thursday, 10 May 2018

David Pines, 1924–2018

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I have just learnt that the physicist David Pines died last week, aged 93. He was not a nuclear physicist, and he and I never crossed p...

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Jim Al-Khalili FRS

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I took a day of annual leave today, not having any scheduled work duties, in order to spend the day with my two youngest children. At p...

Thursday, 26 April 2018

MPhys placement work from Canberra published in Phys Rev C

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I just noticed today (thanks to the student involved telling me) that a paper appeared earlier this year in Physical Review C co-author...

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