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 February 2019

Learning matplotlib

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I've been doing some calculations today on the structure of some heavy transactinide nuclei. This has involved running a code ( ev8 ,...

Monday, 18 February 2019

Another Google Scholar Purge

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Google Scholar has again gone through a process of forgetting or purging a number of citations to my papers. This time last week it said ...

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Thursday, 14 February 2019

Nuclear Spot The Difference #6 revisited

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Regular readers of this blog will no doubt remember a previous spot-the-difference in which the understandable confusion between Art Mal...

Monday, 11 February 2019

Relativity makes mercury liquid

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The link between the theory of General Relativity and the orbit of the planet Mercury is pretty well-know. What I learned recently is th...

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...

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