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.

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Bull Sessions

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My colleague Jim Al-Khalili, who exceeds my 21 years in the Department of Physics at the University of Surrey asked a question about the te...

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

RIP Steven Moszkowski 1927–2020

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I just heard the news that Steven Moszkowski died in December. I heard of his death from my PhD supervisor, Jirina Stone, who has been wo...

Thursday, 22 April 2021

Earth Day and Isotopes

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Apollo 8's Earthrise Image (NASA) Today is Earth Day - one of the highest profile of the special named days that occur throughout the ...

Sunday, 18 April 2021

A couple of new papers: On fission, and nuclear sizes

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I haven't mentioned here about a couple of new papers I have been involved with which have appeared over the last month: • First is a p...

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Conference week

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I mentioned earlier that I had a couple of conference coming up, happening in the same week. This is the week: There is the joint IoP As...

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

A talk in Athens on Zoom

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I gave a talk on Zoom this morning to a group based in Athens, Greece. I didn't have to, or didn't get to, go to Athens for the ta...

Thursday, 25 March 2021

Vaccinated!

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Today I got a text message saying that I was now eligible for a Covid vaccination. I followed the link in the text message and less than an...

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