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, 31 January 2019

Farewell to Kai

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Last night I made a rare trip to the pub (okay, the same pub I went to last Saturday for dinner) where the Surrey nuclear theory group sai...

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Raj K Gupta (1938–2019)

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I read from various friends and colleagues on Facebook that Prof Raj K Gupta of Panjab University, Chandigarrh, has died. I have read s...

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Macramé periodic table

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I took a brief break from marking exams and dissertations today to go to Senate House to see the macramé periodic table made by artist Jane...

Monday, 14 January 2019

del-squared-cactus

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A quick post today as I take a break in marking computing assignments. I saw on Twitter a post about not recognising Greek letters in phy...

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Pear-shaped fission

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Over the Christmas break I noticed that a paper appeared in Nature giving an explanation of why fission fragments tend to favour parti...

Thursday, 3 January 2019

Two new isotopes: Boron-20 and Boron-21

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I noticed a new paper appear on the arXiv this morning , announcing the discovery of two new isotopes; boron–20 and boron–21. Boron has ...

Tuesday, 1 January 2019

PhD in theoretical nuclear physics -> fitness trainer

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One thing that some students ask when it comes to signing up for PhD study is what is the job market like afterwards? One thing is for s...

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