Six good things about the REF

Posted on 22/11/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Prompt Photons

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Nobel Prizes and Science: Theory, experiment, chicken, egg

Posted on 13/10/2013 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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Nobel prize: well done Higgs theorists but what about the experimenters?

Posted on 08/10/2013 by Jon Butterworth

Full credit to Higgs and Englert for Cern Large Hadron Collider discovery, but the Nobel falsely promotes view of ‘lone genius’

At the Guardian. See also Chapter 9.3 of Smashing Physics.

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