Witnesses of small revolutions
Coinciding with the new year, we started a new section in Elhuyar magazine. We have called him “witnesses of small revolutions” and the protagonists will be scientists who die, who are friends, acquaintances and strangers. Scientists, or rather, their surprises and hopes. We will ask you to testify what has surprised you the most since you started working and what findings you would like to witness before you quit working.
Because science advances step by step, accumulating the following on the knowledge of the previous ones, rarely will anyone be able to witness anything that revolutionizes their field of knowledge throughout their professional life. But this is not necessary to open up new worlds to science and technology.
This is the favorite invention of the first place of small revolutions: the tunnel effect microscope. In fact, it was he who opened the doors of nanotechnology, in the 1980s, when our witness began to carry out his doctoral thesis. Today, physicist Txema Pitarke leads the CIC nanoGUNE research center and president of Elhuyar.
Behind him will come more witnesses than investigating in the branches of science and in the patches, they are working to complete our knowledge of the world, of the universe and of ourselves, without forgetting those who turn that knowledge into technology. We have already completed a list of witnesses, but surely you too, reader, would like to know what has most altered this type of researcher throughout his career, or what that hope consists of. You are therefore invited to propose witnesses of small revolutions.
The questions will be for everyone; the answers, sure, will build a rich mosaic of human curiosity for us dead to death.
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