Martin Perl, 1995 Nobel Laureate in Physics Talks Postponed
Until Further Notice "Craft and Art in Experimental Science"
Date: To be announced Location: To be announced Time: To be
announced Description: Martin Perl looks back on his first forty
years of research in experimental physics as a craft and as an
art. Using as a background his discovery in the 1970s of the tau
lepton, the discovery that led to finding the third generation
of elementary particles, he reflects on aspects of science that
are often omitted from the sociological, historical discussions
of scientific research. Among his topics are: - Choosing
experiments, - The use and misuse of obsession in research, -
The denial of anxiety in experimental science, - The art of
knowing enough but not too much, - Good and bad colleagues in
research, - Why is it so hard to get a good idea in science?
"Searching for Isolated Particles with Fractional Electric
Charge" Date: To be announced Location: To be announced Time: To
be announced Description: Two pre