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He Was Made Of Atoms
Saddened to hear of the death of Heinrich Rohrer. Without Rohrer (and his colleague Gerd Binnig) my PhD would have looked very different, for theirs was the Nobel Prize winning invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM). My has quite a bit of STM work in it (to the point Continue reading …
Exploring The Stars
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Olaf Frohn (Creative Commons License), via Astronomy Picture of the Day
Upcoming missions to the solar system
I was just going to link this, but then found this really cool history by the same guy as well!
Goodbye Herschel
Goodbye Herschel, it’s been amazing
I’m beginning to think the most useful thing learned in undergrad labs is the ability to enter a load of numbers into a spreadsheet
Nanoscale Stripes
In a nod to what I used to do, a blog post caught my eye. It regards a bit of a controversy in a field I used to be quite familiar with; nanoscale surface science. The question basically boils down to whether the “stripes” being seen on a very small Continue reading …