Tag: Sunday Special
The Life and Times of Ernest Rutherford
There are a few physicists, who because of their prodigious output...
THE PHYSICS OF THE QUANTUM WORLD
Quantum physics describes the behaviour of the world on very small scales, the scale of atoms and molecules and below. The feature...
A Painless Way of Treating Diseases
I wish no living thing to suffer pain.
- SHELLEY
All of us have sometime or...
The Biggest Animals that have Ever Lived on Earth
Dinosaurs - ranging in size from a small chicken to half the length of a football field - lived on this earth...
Directed Panspermia and Alien Ships from Outer Space
The elucidation of the structure of the DNA by Crick and Watson is the greatest triumph of biology in the twentieth century....
Of Women’s liberation
We would be exposing ourselves to the charge of intellectual dishonesty if we deny that there are many countries in which large...
How Reliable are “Opinion Polls” and “Lists”
Ours is an age when we are inundated by the results of "opinion polls" in every sphere of human activity. Everyday when...
SIR PETER MEDAWAR – THE FATHER OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION – A...
The son of an English woman and a Lebanese business man, Medawar was born in Rio de Janeiro and brought to Britain...
Neils Bohr – Physicist Nonpareil
While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general...
GENIUS AND PERSEVERANCE – A TRIBUTE TO FRANCIS CRICK
James Watson, brilliant biologist and the author of “The Double Helix” begins his book with the following observation.
"I...