Penulis: Mark McCartney

To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites – mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds. There is little indication …

To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites – mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds. There is little indication …

Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin’s interests ranged across thermodynamics, …

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge. His scholarship …

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge. His scholarship …

Demonstrating the strength of tradition in Ireland, Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision is a collection of essays on leading figures from the history of physics in Ireland. It includes …

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most important mathematical physicists of the 19th century. During his lifetime he made a wide range of contributions, notably in continuum mechanics, optics and …

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most important mathematical physicists of the 19th century. During his lifetime he made a wide range of contributions, notably in continuum mechanics, optics and …

Established in the early seventeenth century following a bequest to the university by Sir William Sedley, Oxford’s Sedleian Professorship of Natural Philosophy is one of the university’s oldest …