Science stories – Collaboration

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Published 2015-09-29

Scientific publishing played a key part in the setting up and continuation of international collaborations. Royal Society University Research Fellow Dr Stephen Fairhurst visits Professor Jim Hough to discuss gravitational waves, and the history and future of scientific collaboration.

This film celebrates the International Year of Light in 2015, and is also part of Science stories, a series of films commissioned to mark 350 years of publishing at the Royal Society royalsociety.org/publishing350/

Explore further:
Articles on gravitational waves - bit.ly/2GExv9e
VIII. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field, James Clerk Maxwell, 1865 - bit.ly/2GCWhm9
Articles by James Clerk Maxwell - bit.ly/2qcvUfI
A determination of the deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field, from observations made at the total eclipse of May 29, 1919, F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, Mr. C. Davidson, 1920 - bit.ly/2qbk85y
Articles by William Roy - bit.ly/2qb3vH3
Articles by Jim Hough - bit.ly/2uTWhgh
History of Philosophical Transactions - bit.ly/2HcEzHb
Royal Society Journal Collection: Science in the making - bit.ly/2IA2qjz

All Comments (2)

@snowoz 4 years ago

Gravitational waves have been detected now.