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, 17 May 2022

RIP Ben Mottelson 1926 - 2022

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I saw announced on Facebook, via my colleague and friend Adam Maj from Krakow, that Ben Mottelson has died. It took a couple of days for Wi...

Friday, 13 May 2022

The Liverpool Synchrocyclotron

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There's in intersting article in Physics World this month about the Liverpool Synchrocyclotron . For a period in the 1950s it was in th...

Thursday, 12 May 2022

New paper up on quantum computing

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A new paper from my PhD student Isaac, me, and the other co-supervisor appeared (or "dropped" as the young people say) on the arX...

Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Flamin' Groovies

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Hot on the heels of my visit to London to see the Divine Comedy , I went to another gig on Saturday. This time it was at the 100 Club on Ox...

Friday, 6 May 2022

Departmental Colloquium Series: Michelle Collins

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I've just got back from Michelle Collins' excellent talk as the first speaker in a new colloquium series being organised in the Dep...

Thursday, 5 May 2022

The Divine Comedy

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Yesterday was a busy day with meetings: meeting personal tutees, then a session of the department Equality Diversity and Inclusion committe...

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Jyväskylä PAC meeting

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Yesterday I attended my final meeting as chair and panel member of the Jyväskylä Programme Advisory Committee (PAC). This is the group tha...

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