A flowering success
Robert P Crease meets Karl Niklas, who made an unusual transition from mathematics to plants
Read article: A flowering success
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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. He has written, translated or edited more than a dozen books on the history and philosophy of science and technology, and is the author of the Physics World Discovery ebook Philosophy of Physics and the IOP ebook Philosophy of Physics: a New Introduction. He is past chair of the Forum for History of Physics of the American Physical Society. He is co-editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective, and since 2000 he has written a column, Critical Point, on the historical, social and philosophical dimensions of science for Physics World. His latest book (with Peter D Bond) is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2022 MIT Press).
Robert P Crease meets Karl Niklas, who made an unusual transition from mathematics to plants
Read article: A flowering success
In his latest Critical Point column, Robert P Crease examines the contributions to science of Princess Ekaterina Dashkova
Read article: The pioneer princess
Robert P Crease talks to David Wenner about how he started to collect physics books
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Can you use databases to study the history of physics? Robert P Crease finds out
Read article: The dark side
So you think you could stage a physics play yourself? Robert P Crease meets a man who’s done just that
Read article: Frankenstein on stage
Robert P Crease explains what philosophers of physics get up to
Read article: What philosophers do
Robert P Crease identifies a physics experiment that philosophers would dub “sublime”
Read article: The scientific sublime
Robert P Crease talks to Nathan Myhrvold – author of the new five-volume blockbuster Modernist Bread – about the science and history of our favourite foodstuff
Read article: The physics of bread
Robert P Crease reveals that space is not always as we know it
Read article: Making space
Robert P Crease identifies the main threat to the US's approach to scientific planning
Read article: Oh, America!