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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 14, 2019
Andrew Zhang, a double major in Physics and History, Technology, and Society (HTS), is the first author on the article “Four Facts Everyone Ought to Know about Science: The Two-Culture Concerns of Philip W. Anderson,” published in the Physics in Perspective journal. The article was written with Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics Professor Andrew Zangwill, and can be found here.
In the article, Zhang and Zangwill analyze the writings of the Nobel prize–winning physicist Philip W. Anderson, who used a newspaper essay to convey his concerns about the fidelity of the communication channels that connect the public to the creators of technical knowledge. The authors identify the origins of his concerns and place them in the larger context of his scientific philosophy.
HTS is a major of the Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology, which is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.