{"id":3806,"date":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2015\/04\/28\/this-talk-has-been-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T00:00:00","slug":"this-talk-has-been-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/this-talk-has-been-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"This talk has been cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Jim Enstrom (\u201965)<\/p>\n<p>I will describe how I have used my 1965 HMC B.S. in physics to rise, at least briefly, to the top of two vastly different branches of science:\u00a0 first, a very hard science\u2014experimental elementary particle physics at Stanford University, and second, a very soft science\u2014environmental epidemiology at UCLA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My talk will explain the important roles that HMC, creative thinking, academic freedom, and scientific integrity have played in my career.\u00a0 I will relate these factors to my current area of epidemiologic research:\u00a0 air pollution health effects, something that impacted every person at HMC in the early 1960s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I will conclude by making suggestions for current HMC physics majors who want to pursue a career in physics or a related science, based on my experience as the sixth HMC physics major to obtain a PhD in physics.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3806","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}