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, 27 July 2018

Bypassing the paywall, legally

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I've recently come across unpaywall , a web browser plug-in that spots when you are looking at the abstract of an academic article on ...

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

The great Google Citation Purge

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Our Vice-Provost for Research and Innovation writes a blog to share thoughts, ideas, and announcements. I thoroughly approve of his comm...

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...

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