
Surviving graduate school
Learning the tricks of the trade
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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).
Learning the tricks of the trade
Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey
Competition across the Atlantic
What equations are great, and why?
Jokes about physics and physicists
Send us your physics jokes
Robert P Crease argues that this common exhibit in science museums reveals the mismatch between human perception and the workings of nature
Genius and creativity in art and science