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Probing potential PhDs

12 May 2011 Robert P Crease

What is the best way of judging the ability of prospective PhD students? Robert P Crease outlines his thoughts – and asks for your ideas

Grasping the concept
“You have two square potential wells of the same width,” my Stony Brook colleague Xu Du

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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