Scientist or showman?

The Scientist: Secretive, Selfish or Reticent? A Social Network Analysis

The central question of this paper is what influences collaborators in electronic work environments to decide what knowledge to exchange, how much to exchange, and under what circumstances. Are scientists motivated by purely selfish economic considerations, or is there a role for social relations to influence behavior? This paper develops an empirically-based theoretical framework based on Mark...

To be or not to be a scientist ?

Employers regularly complain of a shortage of qualified scientists and advocate that to remain competitive more scientists need to be trained. However, using a survey of graduates from British universities, I report that three years after graduation less than 50% of graduates from science subjects are working in a scientific occupation. Accounting for selection into major and occupation type, I...

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...

Benjamin Martin. Author, instrument-maker, and `country showman'