Staff and Student interviews: Lizzie Elmer
January 8, 2019
A new year, and a new addition to our series of staff and student interviews on the Nottingham Physics YouTube Channel. In this video, shot and edited by Hannah Coleman, 2nd year PhD student Lizzie Elmer (Nottingham MSci Physics with Astronomy, 2017) reflects on her experiences choosing to study physics at Nottingham, finding her place at university (and …
Staff and student interviews: Chris Morley
February 21, 2018
Over the past few months we’ve been adding a steady stream of interviews with staff and students on our Youtube channel, UoN Physics. The latest addition is an interview with former undergraduate and current PhD student Chris Morley. Chris will be a familiar face to anyone who comes to one of the interview days that makes …
100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
December 4, 2017
In my latest Sixty Symbols video with Brady Haran, I discuss a big bang. Despite the fact I’m an astronomer, I’m not talking about THE Big Bang, but rather the largest explosion made by human beings before the development of the atomic bomb. It was an accident, it happened 100 years ago this week, and …
Nottingham physics YouTube videos: October 2017
October 30, 2017
Nottingham physicists have been busy in October! Here are some of the Youtube videos we’ve appeared in, in collaboration with filmmaker Brady Haran and his YouTube channels Sixty Symbols, Numberphile, and Deep Sky Videos. Sixty Symbols Dr. Becky Smethurst discusses quantum entanglement and the Upside Down: Prof Philip Moriarty measures the speed of light …
New Objectivity video: Ptolemy’s Almagest
July 19, 2017
Our YouTube channel Sixty Symbols is not the only collaboration we have with the prolific Brady Haran. In the latest video from his channel ‘Objectivity‘, check out Prof. Mike Merrifield discussing one of the most influential texts in scientific history: Ptolemy’s Almagest.
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