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Writing, Creativity and Grief
What acts are best to provoke creativity? Some poets – from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dylan Thomas – seem to have felt that drug- or alcohol- induced hazes may be effective, but I don’t think many scientists would recommend that … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science
Tagged Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sam Edwards, Thomas Edison
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On the Loss of a Giant
At the turn of the year I wrote about the death of Ed Kramer, one of the two key people in my life who turned me into the person I am as a scientist. I am deeply saddened to learn … Continue reading
Posted in Science Culture
Tagged Cavendish Professor, Sir Sam Edwards, soft matter physics
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Inspirational Gentlemen
This week I have taken on a new role as Chair of the Royal Society’s Education Committee. School education (like so much in the UK) is an area of much flux and I can imagine an increasing role for this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Research, Science Culture
Tagged charisma, inspirational, mentor, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, role model, Sir Sam Edwards
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