Christian History magazine* has a new issue out on the role of the Church in the development of science and technology. One of the articles interviews several scientists on how their faith and research connect...and one of them is physicist and 1997 Nobel Prize winner William Phillips!
He was the keynote speaker at a physics conference that I went to as a graduate student. Apparently, once you have won a Nobel Prize in physics, you can have conversations like the following:
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: We would like you to speak at our conference.
PHILLIPS: Okay, I'd be happy to...but I'm going to need some liquid nitrogen.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: No problem, how much do you want?
Phillips spent most of his speech (in front of an audience of hundreds of physicists) playing with liquid nitrogen and having a great time. The joy he showed then makes it less of a surprise for me to see him interviewed in Christian History now.
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*Christian History has subscriptions, but financially it runs on the basis of donations: they print and mail out the next issue when they have the money to do so. They also sell back issues and reprints, which can be helpful for research, as each issue is centered on a historical person or topic.
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