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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sissa Medialab
2006-12-01
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| 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 |
| Summary: | 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 embedded in his own being: “a deeply rooted mode of personal existence.” |
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| ISSN: | 1824-2049 |