advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by j. michael t. thompson...
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Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science
by J. Michael T. Thompson
Philosophical Transactions AVolume 371(1993):20120425
June 28, 2013
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All a matter of balance.
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(a) ‘Saint Jerome as Cardinal’ by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541–1614) reproduced courtesy of the National Gallery, London.
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(a) An electroplated spherical shell made at Stanford by Nicolas Hoff and his team.
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A letter from Rodney Hill, FRS, editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, in which he drew my attention to the work of Koiter.
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The Hubble telescope which needed expensive in-flight repairs due to errors made in the grinding of its massive primary mirror.
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Imperfection-sensitivity surfaces for the interactive buckling of a stiffened plate calculated and drawn by Giles Hunt.
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An illustration from Thompson & Stewart's book [18] showing stroboscopic Poincaré sections of a periodically driven nonlinear oscillator, illustrating a steady-state sub-harmonic motion of
order n=2.
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A schematic three-dimensional sketch illustrating the structure of the tangled saddle-node bifurcation.
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Enthusiastic A-level students launching rockets that they have designed and built during a one-week residential course at the Villiers Park centre in Foxton.
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Detail from a photograph taken at the IUTAM Collapse symposium held in London in 1982, showing three participants at the reception held under the UCL dome.
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The complex spatially chaotic load–deflection diagram for an infinitely long strut on a nonlinear elastic foundation.
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Two advanced concepts of nonlinear dynamics whose discoveries allowed the formulation of the simple practical idea of transient capsize testing.
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The notional histogram of a young researcher, Jane Smith, showing papers listed in order of decreasing number of citations (not chronologically).
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Four plots of papers published and citations gained (both are cumulative) for the early careers of four scientists.
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