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The Beagle has landed but no one knows quite where. Another defeat for a British boffin? Or just a small hiccup on the way to scientific greatness? That's the thing about boffins - one just never ...
Message projection: the IOP’s “Bin the Boffin” slogan has lit up the Daily Star’s offices in Canary Wharf. (Courtesy: David Parry) “Boffin” is a quintessentially British word that refers to a ...
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Many young scientists today would be mildly insulted to be called a boffin. But in the mid-20th century the ...
Tessa Boffin, from the series The Knight’s Move (1990), reproduced in Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser’s , Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, Pandora (1991) (© the estate of Tessa ...