Featured in EPN
Featuring in the upcoming issue of EPN:
Einstein’s witches’ sabbath: the first Solvay council on physics1
by F. Berends & Franklin Lambert
‘One hundred years ago, on 29 October 1911, a very special event took place in Brussels: the opening of the first Solvay Council, a meeting which would become a milestone in the history of modern physics…’
Ernest Rutherford: his genius shaped our modern world2
by J. Douglas MacGregor
‘2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Rutherford’s seminal paper which first identified the atomic nucleus and its essential role in the structure of matter. This crucial discovery marked the birth of nuclear physics and lead to enormous advances in our understanding of nature. Rutherford’s legacy has profound and far reaching influences on the shape of the modern world we live in…’
Jan Czochralski, the pioneer of crystal research3
by A. Gadomski
‘Not only was Jan Czochralski the first to propose a method of pulling metallic single crystals from a melt, and to successfully quantify their growth rates. He passionately devoted his entire productive life to crystal research, material science and chemistry, to name only a few areas of his expertise…’
