Taken from the November 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "Learning from your mistakes".
Caitlin Duffy says that physicists must recognize that failure is part and parcel of science
A colleague and I recently conducted an intricate experiment. It used a 33 T static magnetic field
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Caitlin Duffy
is a contributing columnist for Physics World and a postdoc researcher working on correlated electron systems at the Laboratoire National des Champs MagnétiquesIntenses (LNCMI) in Toulouse, France.