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.

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair

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Last week brought the sad news of the death of Clive Sinclair. He had a huge impact on my life through the computers he invented with his...

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

In Oxford as a tourist

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Over the weekend, we visited Oxford as a family on a purely non-academic visit. I spent several years of my life studying there quite a lon...

Thursday, 1 July 2021

The Pad in Madison, and my late Uncle

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I have, in the past, made a few posts with obituaries, or at least reminiscenes, about nuclear physicists who have died. Here is one about ...

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

Papers 064304 and 064305

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By something of a coincidence, I have two papers appearing consecutively in Physical Review C this month. An unplanned coincidence because ...

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 ...

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