Before NASA there was NACA, the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. NACA was upgraded into NASA in 1958 – shortly after the then USSR launched the first satellite, Sputnik, and the USA decided they needed to pull their finger out in space. Anyway, back to NACA. In the late 1940s NACA worked with the US […]
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Coming up this Wednesday we have a public physics talk at the University of Surrey as part of the longstanding series of local Institute of Physics Branch talks that have been organised at the Uni. This week we welcome Dr Chris Hooley from St. Andrews University, who is coming to talk about this history of […]
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My name is Martin; I am a former MPhys student from Surrey currently studying a PhD in the Laser Consortium at Imperial College in London. I am mainly looking in to the synthesis, in the time and space domain, of femtosecond laser pulses. I am helping build and design a new Hollow Core Photonic Crystal […]
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In an earlier post, I pointed out that, according to one metric used to assess how good a scientist is, I am twice as good as a hamster. One way of assessing not a scientist, but a single scientific paper, is how many other scientific papers reference (cite) it. This is certainly a measure of […]
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