Frank Oppenheimer

Frank Oppenheimer

—From physics and political commitment to a new conception of what a science museum should be.—   The history of twentieth-century science is full of physicists turned into true cultural heroes. Their work and contributions, however, were made...
The cyclotron

The cyclotron

—A fundamental objective of twentieth-century physics was to make subatomic particles go round and round increasingly faster—   One of the fundamental tools for research in the field of atomic and nuclear physics is the cyclotron. A cyclotron is a...