The progress of research
When I ran and wrote for Physics Today‘s Search and Discovery department, I’d often end news stories with a look toward the future. Such endings not only sound a note of hope and optimism, they also...
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Indian restaurants in 1970s Britain, especially those in the provinces, seemed to follow the same template. Menus were standardized around a few curries, among them mild creamy Korma, chili-red Rogan...
View ArticleJames Bond in space
Ian Fleming’s third James Bond novel, Moonraker (1955), centers on a plot by Sir Hugo Drax, a British aerospace tycoon with a secret Nazi past, to bomb London with a missile armed with a Soviet nuclear...
View ArticleNobel predictions for 2013
Predicting who will be awarded a Nobel Prize is difficult—at least it has been for me. In the 16 years since I joined the editorial staff of Physics Today, I’ve guessed right just twice: The 1998...
View ArticleNobel prizes for computational science
Last year I wrote this column for Computing in Science & Engineering in which I predicted—correctly, as it turned out—that Martin Karplus would win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. By the time you...
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