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Physics in the pandemic: making particles from space tangible for schoolkids

31 Mar 2021
Taken from the April 2021 issue of Physics World, where it first appeared under the headline "Counting muons in schools".

Andrew Ferguson is a device physicist in Cambridge, UK. This post is part of a series on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the personal and professional lives of physicists around the world. If you’d like to share your own perspective, please contact us at pwld@ioppublishing.org.

(Courtesy: A Ferguson) Primary-school children, and the rest of us too, are continuously being showe

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Andrew Ferguson is a device physicist who until recently was head of physics at a biotech firm in Cambridge, UK. He is now in the process of setting up a company making lab instrumentation, e-mail ajf1006@gmail.com
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