The Curious Wavefunction

This is a piece I had written up for the annual report of this year's Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates. The final version had to be...

Derek said it on his blog today and I have been saying it for some time. The physics community did itself and others a great service by flo...

I n the Wall Street Journal, the physics writer Jeremy Bernstein has a fine review of a new joint biography by Gino Segre of George Gamow a...

John Cockcroft and George Gamow rejoicing on the resolution of a thorny problem, ca. 1930. ( Source ) The mathematician Mark Kac class...

One of the questions I have pondered in the past is why the functional form of a protein should correspond to its most thermodynamically sta...

The other day I was talking to a synthetic chemist friend about conducting reactions at low temperature and I realized that there is another...

There is a surprisingly common belief among scientists that the public speaking skills of most scientists are inversely correlated to their ...

Science progresses by leaps and bounds, but it's not easy to chart its progress. Metrics can only do so much to quantify scientific deve...

As an organic-turned-computational chemist, I once went to a drug discovery conference where conversation during the coffee break turned to ...

For better or worse, very few professional relationships in your working scientific life have as much of an impact on your career and your t...