An insider’s view on science and society. Re-reading John Ziman

A physicist. That is what John Ziman was in the beginning. As he tells us in “On being a physicist,” this implies a kind of nationality, that is, a laboriously learned identity that, at the end of the day, becomes natural. Physics was for him a way of seeing and a way of thinking, inextricably embed...

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Main Author: Ana María Vara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sissa Medialab 2006-12-01
Series:JCOM: Journal of Science Communication
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Online Access:http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/05/04/Jcom0504%282006%29C01/Jcom0504%282006%29C03/Jcom0504%282006%29C03.pdf