
The legend of the leaning tower
What did Galileo really do in Pisa?
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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).
Scientific leaders through the ages
Science is more complex than Karl Popper thought
The first collisions at accelerators tend to be stage managed
What is the most beautiful experiment in physics, according to our poll of Physics World readers? Robert P Crease reports
The origin and historical development of the word "energy"
What is the most beautiful experiment in physics?
Physicists thinking philosophically: the results of our survey
In an attempt to generate some hard statistics about what physicists think about philosophy, Robert P Crease invites you to take part in a special poll
The American public's fears of tritium contributed to the closure of a famous neutron facility