Key steps to becoming a physicist of the very first rank.
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David Bodanis taught the 'Intellectual Toolkit' course at the University of Oxford for many years. His most recent book is E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Pan Macmillan).
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Bodanis, D. Making it to the top. Nature 414, 395–396 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35106625
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