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Churchill’s Bomb

Churchill’s Bomb

A hidden story of science, politics and war On Sunday 4 April 1926, Winston Churchill – Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK government - wrote an essay about quantum theory, at that time a hot topic in physics. He…
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Churchill and science

Churchill’s interests in science have been all over the media this past week. This has followed the claim in the leading science journal Nature that Mario Livio had discovered a 'lost' article by Winston Churchill on the possible existence of…
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At the Edinburgh Book Festival

Book signing
Graham appeared onstage today with Taylor Downing, author of the fine Secret Warriors. In the audience was Peter Higgs, co-winner of last year's Nobel Prize for physics. Over lunch with Graham beforehand, Peter said that he was now making progress…
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