November 2015, Year VII, n. 11
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
Water pouring from a spout breaks into separate droplets
Telos: You graduated in Naples, obtained a PhD in Boston, a post doctorate at the MIT, then worked in Oxford, Neuchâtel and the CERN in Geneva. In 2000 you came back to Italy to teach quantum gravity at Sapienza University. You’re the exception that confirms the rule of brain drain or is the tide turning?
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia: There’s an increased focus on brain gain (although I don’t think much is being done, at least it’s become an issue), but back in 2000 very few people knew what it was. When I came back to Italy I was one of the very few exceptions, and I hadn’t even planned it: it’s very hard for anyone who has lived abroad for over ten years to win a standard competition in Italy ... more
Editorial
Strato of Lampsacus, so what? It was he, an Aristotle’s pupil, who in the third century B.C. noted that water pouring from a spout breaks into separate droplets and realised that when falling a body initially starts to accelerate. So what are we talking about here, physics or philosophy? ... more
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