Stories
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- Article
When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
- Book extract
The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
- Article
A history of twins in science
For thousands of years, twins have been a source of fascination in mythology, religion and the arts. Since the 19th century, they have also been the subject of scientific study and experimentation.
![Portrait of Pierre Curie [1859 - 1906], French physicist](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0000112/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) [1824 - 1907], Scottish mathematician and physicist .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0000145/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Physicists in conflict / Neil A. Porter.
Porter, Neil A.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
Physicists look back / edited by John Roche.
Date: 1990- Books
Physicists and physicians : a history of medical physics from the Renaissance to Röntgen / Francis Duck.
Duck, Francis A.Date: [2013], ©2013- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital Physicists' Association
Date: 1962-1975Reference: PP/FGS/D/2-3Part of: Spear, Frederick Gordon- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital Physicists' Association Bulletins
Date: 1951-1958Reference: GC/160/F/4Part of: Gallop, John Winston (b.1910)
