The early years

Early Years

Educational neuroscience: the early years.

A s developmental cognitive neuroscience explores mechanisms of change at the cognitive and neural systems level, a focus is beginning to emerge on the role of educational experiences in shaping the specific functional circuits that give rise to complex cognitive skills such as reading or math. Such studies mark the emergence of educational neuroscience. This interdisciplinary field tackles que...

String Theory: The Early Years

Lenny Susskind has made many important contributions to theoretical physics during the past 35 years. In this talk I will discuss the early history of string theory (1968-72) emphasizing Susskind’s contributions. Presented at Symposium for L. Susskind’s 60th Birthday Work supported in part by the U.S. Dept. of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701. 1 S-Matrix Theory, Duality, and the Bootst...

Ken Wilson — The Early Years ∗

Ken Wilson’s life-time achievements in fundamental theoretical physics are well known and are well documented in this memorial volume. Therefore, there is no purpose in my adding yet another appreciation of his seminal work. Rather, I shall describe Ken and some of his activities at the beginning of his career, when he was junior faculty at Cornell and I was his student — one of two in the firs...

Thomas Lewis-the early years.