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Category Archives: Sir Sam Edwards
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
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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 Cavendish Professor, Science Culture, Sir Sam Edwards, soft matter physics
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