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Dec 21, 2006 Commentary
An insider’s view on science and society. Re-reading John Ziman

by Ana María Vara

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.”

Volume 5 • Issue 04 • 2006