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Learning lessons about ethics

01 Mar 1999

Most physicists never receive any formal education in ethics, even though they face ethical questions throughout their working lives. Marshall Thomsen believes that it is vital for ethics to be part of the undergraduate curriculum.

To what extent should a formal education in ethics be part of the university physics curriculum? Whe

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