by Len Fisher | 22 Apr 2015 | News
Very pleased that my letter “Music inspired Newton’s rainbow” has now been published online in Nature Vol 250 (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7548/pdf/520436a.pdf). Even more pleasingly, Nature chose to illustrate my letter with the...
by Len Fisher | 5 Dec 2014 | Mini Stories from Science
When Isaac Newton allowed the sunlight passing through a hole in his blind to hit a glass prism that split it into different colours, he wasn’t the first to see such colours. In fact, he’d probably seen them as a child, reflected from the bubbles in his bath, and of...