John Ziman
John Michael Ziman was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.
Background
- Born in
- Cambridge
- Educated at
- University of OxfordKing's College
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society🏆 honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Maurice Pryce
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Neil Ashcroft
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Trending topics shown first"Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values."
"The communication of modern science to the ordinary citizen, necessary, important, desirable as it is, cannot be considered an easy task. The prime obstacle is lack of education. … There is also the d…"
"...the 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, …"
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Timeline
1925
Born
Birth2005
Died
Death
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