Paul Ginsparg Receives Macarthur 2002 Fellowship

[Gerry Mckiernan]

              Paul Ginsparg Receives Macarthur 2002 Fellowship

[http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/2002fellows/ginsparg_paul.htm]

"Paul Ginsparg is a theoretical physicist widely known for creating a computer-based system for physicists and other scientists to communicate their research results [http://xxx.arxiv.cornell.edu/ ]. Ginsparg's document server represents a conscious effort to reorganize scientific communications, establishing a marketplace of ideas of new submissions with minimal editorial oversight and abundant opportunity for commentary, supporting and opposing, from other investigators."

"Ginsparg has deliberately transformed the way physics gets done - challenging conventional standards for review and communication of research and thereby changing the speed and mode of dissemination of scientific advances."

[ALSO: http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/6191/ ]

    Congrats Paul!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and 
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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