Research

Why do we exist ?

19 March 2004

Dr Fergus Wilson's work on antimatter continues a long tradition in Bristol's Physics Department. In 1928 Paul Dirac, a Bristol graduate, first proposed the existence of antimatter; in 1933 Guiseppe Occhialini proved it existed; and in 1944 Occhialini came to Bristol where he was instrumental in the discovery of the pion particle.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth . . .

19 March 2004

In the week that saw the US announce plans to put a man on Mars, two papers from the Earth Sciences Department were published in Nature showing just how little we know about the interior of our own planet, or how life evolved on it.