Nick Russell photographer | writer | science lover | travelernick at nhvzr dot net
Posts Tagged ‘physics’
Nuclear History
Nuclear physics and the context of its development during World War II and the Cold War continue to drive fantasies and the reality of scientific research. By artistically documenting historical research apparatus, isotope production facilities, and disaster sites, I hope to shed light on the tremendously difficult questions raised by the application of nuclear energy in the 20th century. To […]
Summer of Science
During the summer of 2009, fellow science writer Lizzie Wade and I drove 15,000 miles across America to take the pulse of American high energy physics as the Large Hadron Collider slowly rumbled to life in Europe. After visits to eight DOE national laboratories, a NASA lab, the Very Large Array and the abandoned site […]