Close also interviewed Pontecorvo's son, Gil, now a 77-year-old retired nuclear physicist in Moscow, who was 12 when the family fled.
A physicist at Fermilab in Chicago has calculated that an apple fired at such velocity would, if it hit the moon, excavate a crater six miles in diameter.
As the physicist and inventor Leo Szilard once remarked: "This is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind".
They began thinking of ways to physically expand the tissue samples themselves, bringing them to the work of the late Toyoichi Tanaka, a pioneering MIT physicist who discovered "smart gels" in the 1970s.
Mathematician, physicist and writer (1706-1749) Suggested by LessSure LessSure explores the Age of Enlightenment to find the little-known French polymath Émilie du Châtelet.
Astronomers first suggested that black holes might exist in the 18th century, but they were not called "black holes" until the physicist John Wheeler so named them in 1967.
A great death, as it were, among a city of great births: the painters William Rothenstein and David Hockney, the composer Frederick Delius, the writer JB Priestley, the physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Edward Appleton – to name only a few of the many eminent baby Bradfordians.
That at least is the message from the retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman, who is flogging his Nobel prize medal.
