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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. These advancements in technology will need to be matched by advancements in software, resulting in an even more pressing need for research software engineers.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And as a kind of graduation gift when I finished (British) elementary school in June 1972 I arranged to get those books. But soon the summer was over, and I was at a new school , mostly away from my books, and doing things like diligently learning more Latin and Greek. The lambda hyperon. They all became my personal friends.

Physics 95