Imagine being a physicist in 1920, the year the Institute of Physics was formed. The ordered world of classical physics was being turned upside down by a rapid succession of startling discoveries and ...

Alpha decay represents a fundamental mode of radioactive disintegration wherein an unstable nucleus emits an alpha particle—a tightly bound cluster of two protons and two neutrons. This process not ...

Plasma physics is the study of charged particles and fluids interacting with self-consistent electric and magnetic fields. It is a basic research discipline that has many different areas of ...