Department of Engineering and Newnham College, University of Cambridge.
Research interests in materials engineering and sustainability.
Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Professor of Observational Cosmology and Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Professor in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics and First Bursar, King's College Cambridge
Professor of Mathematical Physics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Professor of Image and Signal Processing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
Senior Lecturer and Curator, University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge
Plant Virology & Molecular Plant Pathology Group, Department of Plant Sciences
Professor of Physical Chemistry
Professor of Molecular Modelling, Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Department of Physics The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Professor Emeritus Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Clare College, University of Cambridge
Research interests in the development of the nervous system.
Professor of History of Science and Medicine, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Associate Professor in Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Deputy Head of School, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University
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Kipling’s “Iron‒Cold Iron‒is master of them all” captures the familiar importance of metals as structural materials. Yet common metals are not necessarily hard; they can become so when deformed. This phenomenon, strain hardening, was first explained by G. I. Taylor in 1934. Ninety years on from this pioneering work on dislocation theory, we explore the deformation of metals when dislocations do not exist, that is when the metals are non-crystalline. These amorphous metals have record-breaking combinations of properties. They behave very differently from the metals that Taylor studied, but we do find phenomena for which his work (in a dramatically different context) is directly relevant.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, U.K. policy-makers claimed to be "following the science". Many commentators objected that the government did not live up to this aim. Others worried that policy-makers ought not blindly "follow" science, because this involves an abdication of responsibility. In this talk, I consider a third, even more fundamental concern: that there is no such thing as "the" science. Drawing on the case of adolescent vaccination against Covid-19, I argue that the best that any scientific advisory group can do is to offer a partial perspective on reality. In turn, this has important implications for how we think about science and politics.
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