Web watch

To suggest topics or sites for Web Watch, please visit http://www.pyhsicstoday.org/suggestwebwatch.html . Compiled and edited by Charles Day

http://www.ieeeghn.org

From the IEEE comes the IEEE Global History Network, an extensive website devoted to preserving and describing the history of electrical, electronic, and computer technologies. Among the physicists whose oral histories are preserved are Nobel laureates Charles Kao, Edward Purcell, and Norman Ramsey.

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/calculate.html

The US Environmental Protection Agency has built an online tool called Calculate Your Radiation Dose. The tool takes into account your location, air travel, proximity to power plants, and exposure to other natural and manmade sources of radiation.

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/scc/100women 100visions

The online exhibition 100 Women—100 Visions features dramatic photographic portraits of female scientists and engineers at Imperial College London. The women come from all career stages and from all the university’s science and engineering departments.