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The rise and rise of ‘new big science’

09 Apr 2019 Robert P Crease
Taken from the April 2019 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "The new big science".

Neutron-scattering facilities exemplify the changing face of big science, as Robert P Crease discovers on a visit to Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge physicists
New thinking: Todd Toops (left), Charles Finney and Melanie DeBusk from Oak Ridge use neutrons to improve the filters that collect vehicle emissions. (Courtesy: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)
“They do nuclear work there and jam your GPS,” my taxi driver warned me as we drove from the air

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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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