First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton
Published by Key Porter Books
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Having met Howard Burton a number of times and getting to know his clear focus and overarching personal candour, this book presents a very personal story of building the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in Waterloo, ON. Overall, what emerges is a rare synergy between two remarkable individuals, Mike Lazaridis the philanthropist and Howard Burton charged to define and implement the fledgling Institute, who were singularly unafraid to break all existing rules and assumptions around what a Physics Institute should be like.Read More ..
14 Oct 2010
[Book Review]: First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science
First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science by Howard Burton
Published by Key Porter Books
WorldCat • LibraryThing • Google Books • BookFinder
Having met Howard Burton a number of times and getting to know his clear focus and overarching personal candour, this book presents a very personal story of building the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in Waterloo, ON. Overall, what emerges is a rare synergy between two remarkable individuals, Mike Lazaridis the philanthropist and Howard Burton charged to define and implement the fledgling Institute, who were singularly unafraid to break all existing rules and assumptions around what a Physics Institute should be like.Read More ..