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Culture, history and society

Competitive not cut-throat: what baseball’s Ted Williams tells us about physicists’ instincts

07 Sep 2021 Robert P Crease
Taken from the September 2021 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Competitive instincts".

Physicists are competitive, but that doesn’t make them cut-throat, argues Robert P Crease

baseball player sliding in to touch a base
For the greater good Competition in physics, as with sport, raises your performance and that of your opponents. (Courtesy: iStock/Dmytro Aksonovk)
Ted Williams used to give away his secrets. The Boston Red Sox baseball player, who was one of the g

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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