Category: History
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Just Because You Can, Should You? An Interactive Discussion on Ethics in a Scientific Context
Link to recording of research discussion 2025-01-15 @ FRIB room 1200 APS The Back Page (June 2010): “Scientific Fraud (or scientific misconduct if you dislike using the term fraud)” by David Goodstein TL/DR: Goodstein’s Framework for Scientific Fraud: “In my experience three factors are nearly always present whenever fraud occurs…
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THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NASA for indulging a “future astronomer” in 1989!
When I was in 5th grade, our substitute teacher told us about a scene in the movie Summer School where the English teacher character gave the students a persuasive writing assignment. One of the students wrote a boycott letter to a sunglasses company complaining about their product and, in response,…
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Happy Birthday Fred Hoyle!
Today is Fred Hoyle‘s 110th Birthday! The photo above includes the following original caption: Donald Clayton and Fred Hoyle at rented cottage on the beach in Freeport TX in March 1975 for a weekend. They revise drafts of Hoyle’s letter to The Times (London, Apr 8, 1975) concerning Jocelyn Bell…
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On the Possibility of Electric Dipole Moments for Elementary Particles and Nuclei
Published on this day 75 years ago is the paper by Edward M. Purcell and Norman F. Ramsey that launched search for the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) neutrons, electrons, atomic nuclei, and other elementary particles such as muons. Ramsey recounts the story of how this paper and the first…
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Happy Birthday Madame Chien-Shiung Wu!
Today is Madame Chien-Shiung Wu’s 113th birthday! Some interesting facts about Madame Wu: She is probably most famous for conceiving and carrying out the first experiment published that indicated that parity was violated in the weak interaction. This experiment has a fascinating history that is recounted in Chapter 9 in…
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The Purcell Club
At the request of Aiden, the whole team is now practicing how to carry out order of magnitude estimates. We meet every Tuesday from 16:00-17:00 and pick a Purcell problem at random from his series published in the 1980’s called The Back of the Envelope in the American Journal of…
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Gordon Arrowsmith-Kron Defends Award Winning PhD Dissertation!
TOWARDS ELECTRIC FIELD AND ATOM NUMBER UPGRADES FOR A HIGHER SENSITIVITY SEARCH FOR THE ATOMIC ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENT OF RADIUM-225 My Introduction To Gordon’s PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation My name is Jaideep and welcome to this joyous occasion! It is an honor and a delight to introduce our combatants today.…
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The MSU Cyclotron Lab’s Own Hidden Figure: Prof. Thelma Irene Arnette and “The Bomb”
Professor Thelma Irene Arnette (1920-2017) was the third person hired (the first two were Prof. Henry Blosser and Prof. Morton Gordon) to design the first cyclotron (the “K50”) at Michigan State University around 1960. She would go on to become an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1962 and earned tenure…
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Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
A few years ago Arthur Obermayer found an essay Isaac Asimov wrote in 1959 on how to foster creativity within a group setting. This essay titled “On Creativity” was published in MIT Technology Review in 2014 and can be accessed via this link. The process of creativity appears to be universal and…
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Preprint of EDM Review Paper posted to arXiv:1710.02504
This paper has been seven years in the making and counting. I have only participated in the last two and half years of this massive undertaking and found the process to be profoundly humbling. I am tremendously relieved to see this posted online and am looking forward to all of the feedback…
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