History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The Importance of Apprenticeship in Physics
George Gamoff, who'd been a nuclear physicist, had predicted he was involved in early ideas about the production of elements in the early universe through nuclear reactions. He also wrote a number of fun, popular books about relativity and other thing. There's a question here about, from Diana, about when and why did apprenticeships end? Seems like lots of great people were apprentices. And she mentions Benjamin Franklin, I actually, yes, I guess I didn't know that piece of the story.
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