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Oppenheimer and the poisoned apple
This summer’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer, begins the chronological recounting of the physicist’s life in Cambridge. The recent Harvard graduate, later dubbed the ‘father of the atomic […]
Continue reading »This summer’s blockbuster, Oppenheimer, begins the chronological recounting of the physicist’s life in Cambridge. The recent Harvard graduate, later dubbed the ‘father of the atomic […]
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Continue reading »Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge University Library […]
Continue reading »This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]
Continue reading »Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1822, the French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790–1832) succeeded in his attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic text of the famous Rosetta […]
Continue reading »A guest post by Lucy Graham. For the last three weeks, I have been lucky enough to explore daily life behind the scenes in the […]
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