An insider’s view on science and society. Re-reading John Ziman

December 21st, 2006 | RESEARCH

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.”

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Ana Maria Vara, Author, National University of San Martín

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Identifier Type: issn
Identifier: 1824-2049

Publication: Journal of Science Communication
Volume: 5
Number: 4

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