tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post1698007544725234692..comments2024-03-28T04:15:44.459-05:00Comments on nanoscale views: Writing style, "grand visions", and impactDouglas Natelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-46906564564880299912014-12-31T05:59:37.347-06:002014-12-31T05:59:37.347-06:00Hello Douglas, It's a great topic. I had read ...Hello Douglas, It's a great topic. I had read a book about this where said that “ before write become a reader.” And i like this sentences very much. Because observing power is most important part of writing (my personal opinion).<br /><a href="http://www.bingo-voyance.com/" rel="nofollow">voyance nuit</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00061753929484666621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-91364981948791701832014-12-02T08:53:20.149-06:002014-12-02T08:53:20.149-06:00see also here:
http://condensedconcepts.blogspot.c...see also here:<br />http://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/grant-writing-tips.html<br /><br />Including comments and a later post with his slides of a talk about grant writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-13324982465885224902014-11-27T09:22:48.300-06:002014-11-27T09:22:48.300-06:00I'm a big fan of the Mermin quote and many thi...I'm a big fan of the Mermin quote and many things about Kroemer's article (which is available in pdf form <a href="http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/faculty/Kroemer/pubs/15_05Nano.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>, without Wiley's paywall. <br /><br />There are separate issues, in my view. One is trying to predict with any certainty where basic research will lead. The other is how important it is to cast one's work in (at the risk of pissing off some people) grandiose terms. <br /><br />My point is, I'm worried that relatively measured big-picture-context statements ("This work will shed light on one of the key unsolved problems in condensed matter physics") are considered insufficient, uninspired, and wimpy; and more hype is required to be considered a Grand Visionary ("We will then build topological quantum computers" or "Thus, this project will solve the long-standing high-Tc problem and enable ab initio creation of new high temperature superconductors", to make up a couple) whether that's at all realistic.<br /><br />DaveC, you raise an interesting point, but sometimes things really do pan out, particularly when the scope of what's promised is not crazy. Douglas Natelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340091255404229559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-16632456032198623632014-11-26T14:56:16.765-06:002014-11-26T14:56:16.765-06:00I wonder if your "extremely rare" is act...I wonder if your "extremely rare" is actually never! Is there a single instance in science (not engineering) where great promises were made in a proposal and subsequently fulfilled?<br /><br />It would be interesting to do a study of promises and potential impacts stated in all abstracts in the NSF, DoE and DoD abstract databases between, say, 5 and 10 years ago and look at the real end results as of today.<br />DaveCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-56407143462126937912014-11-26T09:52:15.671-06:002014-11-26T09:52:15.671-06:00The quote comes from N. David Mermin's article...The quote comes from N. David Mermin's article "How Not to Create Tigers" (Physics Today 52(8), 11 (1999)).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-22276855733629507082014-11-26T09:07:35.583-06:002014-11-26T09:07:35.583-06:00Excellent quote by Mermin. Sadly, I feel we are in...Excellent quote by Mermin. Sadly, I feel we are instead going more and more in the opposite direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13869903.post-27581941249281769002014-11-26T06:50:03.902-06:002014-11-26T06:50:03.902-06:00I suggest to read Herbert Kroemer's article &q...I suggest to read Herbert Kroemer's article "Nano-whatever: Do we really know where we are heading?" (phys. stat. sol. (a) 202, No. 6, 957–964 (2005)). It contains a interesting quote from David Mermin:"I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com