TY - JOUR
T1 - Flinn's feature fuels forum
AU - Marsh, B. D.
AU - Greenberg, Richard
AU - Natland, James N.
PY - 1981/7/21
Y1 - 1981/7/21
N2 - The entertaining note by Edward A. Flinn (Information transfer in verbal presentations at scientific meetings, Eos, 62, 179, 1981) brought to mind a somewhat similar discussion of this problem by the Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). Evidently, in response to a query from Professor Guthrie about the role of a physical society, which was something like an AGU meeting, he wrote in 1873 to W.G. Adams [Campbell and Garnett, 1884; p. 294]: For the evolution of science by societies the main requisite is the perfect freedom of communication between each member and any one of the others who may act as a reagent.
AB - The entertaining note by Edward A. Flinn (Information transfer in verbal presentations at scientific meetings, Eos, 62, 179, 1981) brought to mind a somewhat similar discussion of this problem by the Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). Evidently, in response to a query from Professor Guthrie about the role of a physical society, which was something like an AGU meeting, he wrote in 1873 to W.G. Adams [Campbell and Garnett, 1884; p. 294]: For the evolution of science by societies the main requisite is the perfect freedom of communication between each member and any one of the others who may act as a reagent.
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U2 - 10.1029/EO062i029p00585-03
DO - 10.1029/EO062i029p00585-03
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:84979438985
SN - 0096-3941
VL - 62
SP - 585
EP - 586
JO - Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
JF - Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
IS - 29
ER -