Vannevar Bush

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Review: 'Oppenheimer' (2023)

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Culture Science atomic bombings blue sky research Edward Teller George Kistiyakowsky J. Robert Oppenheimer Kenneth Bainbridge Leslie Groves Lewis Strauss Los Alamos Manhattan Project nuclear weapons Oppenheimer Robert Serber Trinity test Vannevar Bush

Oppenheimer was great. I really liked it. I don't have a review as much as some notes that I took during the film that I'd like to share. But before diving into them, I should say that I got a…

On resource constraints and merit

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Analysis Science Big Science Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology India-based Neutrino Observatory ISRO Jadugoda jugaad let teachers teach NASA particle physics R&D funding resource constraint Sabine Hossenfelder Sean Carroll Superconducting Super Collider Swarnajayanti Fellowships transparency Vannevar Bush

In the face of complaints about how so few women have been awarded this year’s Swarnajayanti Fellowships in India, some scientists pushed back asking which of the male laureates who had been selected…

Freeman Dyson's PhD

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Op-eds Science Cornell University doctorate Freeman Dyson Institute for Advanced Study Julian Schwinger Nobel Prize PhD privilege quantum electrodynamics Richard Feynman scientific publishing scientific research Vannevar Bush Shin'ichiro Tomonaga

The physicist, thinker and writer Freeman Dyson passed away on February 28, 2020, at the age of 96. I wrote his obituary for The Wire Science; excerpt: The 1965 Nobel Prize for the development of [qu…