Tag: opinion

• March 4, 2023

  Facing history: Why engaging with difficult histories matters for scientists

  While it is easy—and devastatingly common—for physicists to dismiss our everyday “fundamental science” lab work as an ethereal, theoretical, and purely apolitical study, it is impossible to ignore the historical and, yes, political applications of our work. To be a graduate student in the physics department at Columbia University is to know that Pupin Hall—the…