School of the Physical Sciences
About this community
The School of the Physical Sciences is one of six Schools making up the academic work of the University. It covers Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geography, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Mathematics and Physics. The School’s aim is to contribute to our understanding of the physical world through excellence in observational, theoretical and experimental science and to extend quantitative, qualitative and combined methodologies to address problems in the fields of biology, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. In pursuit of these goals, the School coordinates objectives in research, teaching, and infrastructure.
Find out more about the School of the Physical Sciences at http://www.physsci.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Cambridge eScience Centre (CeSC)
Part of the Centre for Scientific Computing; aims to coordinate and maintain CamGrid, to enable new scientific advances by using novel computing paradigms, and to develop new generic Grid-based tools -
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Carries out research of world-class excellence in a broad range of subjects across applied mathematics and theoretical physics -
Department of Earth Sciences
Research across the whole spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including the areas of Geophysics, Geochemistry, Mineral Sciences, Petrology, Palaeontology, Vulcanism, Marine Sciences, and Palaeoceanography -
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Includes research in the field of biomedical materials, in parallel with historically strong activities in the development of structural materials and processes, and of device materials
Recent Submissions
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Rekindling histories : families and British polar exploration
(07/03/2017)This thesis examines the roles that families played, and continue to play, in sustaining British polar exploration. It uses polar exploration as a case-study to investigate the ways in which people maintain or revive ... -
Law and power relations in risk governance of oil and gas activities in the Russian north
(08/11/2016)This thesis is a socio-legal interdisciplinary study of risk governance in the oil and gas sector in the Russian North. Against a backdrop of the author's experience of training to be and working as a lawyer in both Siberia ... -
Key factors influencing the reliability of trunk gas pipelines in the West Siberian North
(16/03/1999)For many years Russia has been the world's largest natural gas producer. Nearly 80% of total Russian production comes from three West Siberian enterprises of RAO Gazprom, Russia's monopolistic gas company. These gas fields ... -
Monitoring and management of tourist landing sites in the Maritime Antarctic
(26/01/1999)Tourism is the most recent large-scale human activity in the Antarctic. The 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty requires that all activities in the Antarctic, including tourism, shall "be ...
