However, most physicists and astronomers remain unconvinced.

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He has generally been met with unease from theoretical physicists and with scepticism from astronomers.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the prevailing education system and introduce a thorough grounding in the mathematical sciences in order to produce the mathematicians, astronomers and physicists capable of carrying out the task.

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Edward Teller and George Gamow had set up a series of meetings among astronomers and theoretical physicists who shared the goal of exploring the key energy issues of the period.

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Indeed, it might be argued that what truly distinguishes Big Science from the small stuff as astronomers and physicists have known for decades and biologists discovered in the aftermath of the Human Genome Project is not the amount of money involved but the volume of data that needs to be processed.

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