John Ziman
What pushed His Excellency Enrico Fermi, acclaimed Academician of Italy entitled to a state car and driver, to leave Italy all of a sudden in December 1938 in order to reach New York, after a short stop in Stockholm for the ceremony that celebrated him as a Nobel laureate for physics, and to accept a job as a simple physics lecturer at the Columbia University?
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Dec 21, 2006John Ziman with his old-fashioned ways, was a real British gentleman of the colonies. Born and raised in New Zealand, Ziman belonged to …
A physicist. That is what John Ziman was in the beginning. As he tells us in “On being a physicist,” this implies a …
Real science is excellent science – how to interpret post-academic science, Mode 2 and the ERC
Dec 21, 2006When thinking about this contribution, an homage to John Ziman, one question occurred to me repeatedly: what would John have made of the …