There’s a reason why Oppenheimer will focus on the Manhattan Project, and not the bopping quantum physics scene in Göttingen that gave a young Robert Oppenheimer his start.| www.macroscience.org
With rising life expectancies around the world and an older scientific workforce than ever before, what does aging mean for individual scientists, and what do aging scientists mean for scientific progress as a whole? Here we examine how scientists and scholars age in terms of how their ideas and contributions relate to the evolving frontier of knowledge and how demographically aging fields relate to field-level advance. At the individual level, we examine how research experiences and choices ...| arXiv.org
If you’re not already familiar (and, frankly, are the kind of person who is weird enough to be subscribed to Macroscience), I highly recommend that you immediately stop what you’re doing and visit the Wikipedia page for “long-term experiment”.| www.macroscience.org