Blog Posts

Meet the woman who contributed to the discovery of DNA's double helix, but whose contributions to modern science have largely been forgotten. The immediate post-WWII annual photographs of Cavendish Staff and Research Students are remarkable for the small numbers of women present, despite their huge contributions to the war...

Many congratulations to the winners of the Cavendish Annual Thesis Prizes for Postgraduate Students, which recognise exceptional computational, experimental, and theoretical physics research by PhD students. The prizes are awarded annually based on a peer-reviewed paper reporting research undertaken during their PhD at the...

Having started as a trainee radio telescope technician some 40 years ago, Clive Shaw is now the Chief Mechanical Workshop Technician at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO), five miles south-west of Cambridge, at Lord’s Bridge. One day I can be attending meetings to discuss new projects in the pipeline or...

Cavendish particle physicist Harry Cliff discusses his first popular science book, which has just been published by Picador in the UK and Doubleday in the USA. I wanted to find an accessible hook that would help guide readers through what can be rather challenging concepts from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology...