Who will win this year’s Nobel Prize?
Who do you think will win? Will the prize be awarded for the discovery of the top quark, Bose-Einstein condensation, the gluon, the semiconductor laser, the anisotropy in the cosmic background radiati...
Read article: Game, set and slower match
Game, set and slower match
To many sports fans, the month of June is synonymous with the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Thousands of people will flock to the All England Lawn Tennis Club to watch the players battle it out on the ...
‘Rocket science’: the facts
A frequent complaint at gatherings of senior physicists is that that everyone with a PhD in theoretical physics abandons research to follow a lucrative career as a “rocket scientist” in th...
Problems or prophecies?
There is a spectre haunting this book – the spectre of John Horgan, the journalist whose successful book The End of Science tweaked the collective nose of the scientific community when it was pu...
How the Nobel prize was won
The Nobel Foundation chooses Nobel prize winners with the utmost secrecy. But in 1974 it agreed to allow historians access to any of its archives over fifty year old. Since then Crawford has documente...
Breaking free from the post-doc trap
Genevieve Haddad is typical of many scientists. She did a degree, a PhD and a post-doc, but then realized she did not want to spend the next few years of her life “getting to know more and more ...
Read article: The physics of football
The physics of football
No-one forgets a great goal in football. As players from 32 countries prepare for the 1998 World Cup in France, find out how top footballers strike the ball to maximum effect
Do you know your stuff?
Here I am, sitting quietly and comfortably in front of my tiny wooden desk, typing these lines on the keyboard of my laptop computer, peeping from time to time through the light linen of the curtain a...
Consultancy as a career
Reviewed by Allan Newton This is an interesting book that analyses the career options of scientists who become consultants, whether in a self-employed capacity or in a large consultancy firm. It is a ...
Highlights of the year
This year saw many advances in physics. PhysicsWeb has compiled a list of ten highlights (in no particular order) of 1997
