Will Thomas
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Director of Research in History, Policy, and Culture at the American Institute of Physics. Author of Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960. Views expressed are my own.
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If you want to know more about the president's uncle (who really was an MIT physicist and engineer), check out our 2018 profile of him by @williamthomas.bsky.social.
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As it keeps coming up (well, the President keeps mentioning him) @physicstoday.aip.org did a profile on John Trump a while ago.
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I know the burning question on everyone's mind right now is "How did magnetohydrodynamics develop over the course of the 20th century?" Well, you can all breathe a sigh of relief. In this week's History Weekly Edition, I discuss Alex Blum and Arnab Chaudhuri's article explaining just that.
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Selfishly, as someone who likes playing VR flight sims, the fact that Zuck set bazillions of dollars on fire to sell cheap relatively high-quality VR headsets, albeit for his failed second life clone, was basically the only good thing he's done in in his life
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There is also an AIP oral history with Charlotte Moore Sitterly, from a 1978 interview by David DeVorkin. These are always really enlightening reads. repository.aip.org/node/128127
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