Monthly Archive for July, 2009
- Jonathan Hare, Freelance Science Communicator
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Dr. Jonathan Hare is a freelance science communicator. His PhD work with Sir Harry Kroto lead to a method of making the football molecule C60, Buckminsterfullerene. He has worked as a ‘Time Lord’ at the National Physical laboratory working with atomic clocks as well as with British Gas developing a gas powered car. He has been on all the BBC / OU Rough Science (6 series) and Hollywood Science (2 series) TV programmes. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Sussex University. He loves making things, juggling, hill walking, amateur radio and painting.
- Marco Battaglia, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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Marco Battaglia obtained his MSc at the University of Milano in Italy and his PhD at the University of Helsinki in 1999, while working at CERN, Geneva. He held a research staff position at CERN before joining the Physics Faculty at Berkeley in 2003. Battaglia is an experimental particle physicist with interests in the production and decay processes of heavy quarks, origin of matter and of electro-weak symmetry breaking. He also researches the nature of new physics, beyond the established Standard Model of electro-weak interactions. More…
- Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Patrick Baert is Fellow of Selwyn College and Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge. He developed a new perspective on philosophy of social science, inspired by American neo-pragmatism and Continental hermeneutics. Amongst his publications are Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (2005), Social Theory in the Twentieth Century (1998) and Time, Self and Social Being (1992). He was Vice-President for Publications of the European Sociological Association and President of its Social Theory Network.
