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Trust me, I am a physicist

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Lisa Randall, professor of physics at Harvard University, has stunned her peers with her theories on extra dimensions and she aims to bring these theories to a wider audience with the publication of her book, Warped Passages, in June 2005. Randall hopes that her book while help encourage new groups of people to become interested in physics and help them comprehend ideas that they may have believed were beyond their grasp.

Author: Fazackerley, Anna
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2005
Strategy & planning, Science & research, Physics, Research, Personal narratives, Biography, Works, Aims and objectives, Randall, Lisa (American physicist)

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'Not many scientists can claim immortality'

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A number of academics give their thoughts on the life and work of Francis Crick, the scientist whose research unlocked the secret of DNA, in the light of his death on 27 July 2004 at the Thornton Hospital in California.

Author: Fazackerley, Anna
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
Obituary, Appreciation, Crick, Francis

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Passion drives the best and brightest in biology

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Giles Oldroyd runs his own laboratory in the disease and stress biology department at the John Innes Centre. Dr Oldroyd has turned down impressive job offers in the US to come to Norwich.

Author: Fazackerley, Anna
Publisher: Times Supplements Ltd.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2006
College teachers, College faculty, Oldroyd, Giles

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