The Overproduction of Truth: Passion, Competition, and Integrity in Modern Science

ISBN-13: 9780198799887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Gianfranco Pacchioni

Opis

This is a critical assessment of policies and behaviour in science production and publication, touching upon the tumultuous growth of scientific journals in parallel with the growth of self-declared scientists worldwide. The author investigates these problems of science and how this can seriously affect the relationship between science and society.

Recenzje

Pacchionis eminently readable description of the structure and practice of modern science, including many of its foibles, will be added to my recommended reading list for scientific neophytes, veteran practitioners and those seeking to understand how modern science works. In an easy and elegant style he covers the full range of scientific activity including graduate training to the exigencies of employment, the execution of experiments, the culture of publishing, the ramifications of explosion of the scientific population and the unfortunate examples of fraud. Highly recommended.

O autorze

Gianfranco Pacchioni is Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Milano Bicocca. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. He has worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California and at the Technical University of Munich. His main interests are theory and electronic structure of oxides (bulk, surface, thin films, nanostructures), supported metal clusters, materials for catalysis, photocatalysis and energy production. Pacchioni has received various awards, including the Nasini Medal and the Pisani Medal of the Italian Chemical Society, the National Prize "Federchimica," the Alexander von Humboldt Award, and the Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences. He is Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Academia Europaea, and the European Academy of Sciences.