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Sir Frank Smith, G.B.E., K.C.B., F.R.S - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoBorn in Birmingham in 1876, he gained a national scholarship in physics at the Royal College of Science in London. During this time he did a great deal of advanced original ...
The Separation of Gases - Nature
Nature· 5 days agoDr. Ruhemann has therefore written a volume to remedy this lack of knowledge on the part of British men of science, in order that the subject may be taught in the universities ...
Kelvin the Man - Nature
Nature· 5 days agoIn 1910, Silvanus Thompson wrote the official biography. In the preceding year, Kelvin's sister, Mrs. King, wrote “Lord Kelvin's Early Home,” which gives a delightful picture of him from childhood ...
The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: a History - Nature
Nature· 5 days agoSINCE the days of the distinguished Joseph Priestley, no physicist has ventured to give us series of lessons on the history of the origin and progress of electrical science ...
Back to the American future
The New Statesman· 6 days agoIn her exquisitely prickly novel, The Vulnerables, published last year, the American author Sigrid Nunez writes: “If it is true that an inability to deal...
