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Image description: A Nobel Prize for Chemistry medal The winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes, which recognise outstanding achievement in the fields of science, literature and peace, have been announced in Stockholm. The Physics Prize this year recognised “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.” One half of the prize went jointly to […]
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Image description: The lithium-ion battery pack inside a Nissan Leaf When evaluating what technology has shaped the 21st century, the lithium-ion battery stands out. From our phones and laptops to mobility aids, it is difficult to picture our lives without this seemingly simple piece of electrochemistry. Their importance is highlighted when considering that batteries seem […]
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Image Credit: Michael Dustin A memorial gathering for Oxford DPhil student Christopher Peel was held on 12 October 2018 at 4pm in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Tributes have poured in after his unexpected death on 12nd August at the age of 28. Peel was pursuing a DPhil at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under the […]
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Going into this performance, I wasn’t quite sure which half of it I was more excited about! As a physics student, I was thrilled to be able to witness Brian Cox’s enthusiasm live, but as a keen music enthusiast I also relished the prospect of being able to hear all four of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” […]
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Understanding just how different a coffee cup is to a ball has earnt a former Oxford student the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Having completed his Ph.D here in 1969, Professor John Michael Kosterlitz is currently at Rhode Island’s Brown University, where his collaborative work with Duncan Haldane and David J. Thouless into exotic states […]
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What would you do, if you had the telepathic power to read and control minds across the globe? Complete a P.H.D in Anthropology and take up a two-year residence at Pembroke College Oxford? No, that wasn’t going to be my answer either. But that’s what Charles Xavier aka Professor X did. Before he became a […]
Continue ReadingDr Brian May, guitarist of Queen, astrophysicist, and ardent proponent of the ‘Team Badger’ campaign, sent a special greeting to students from Oxford in an OUSU email this week. May, who addressed the Oxford Union last term with the talk “Sets, Drugs, and Rock & Roll”, was raising publicity for his “Save the Badger, Badger, […]
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