The Reinvention of Science
Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance
Scientists Vicent J. Martínez and Bernard J. T. Jones will be discussing the research carried out and published in their book The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance.
This talk will be chaired by Sonia Antoranz Contera, Professor of Biological Physics at Oxford Univesity and member of CERU-SRUK (Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom).
Vicent J. Martínez is a Spanish astronomer and professor at the University of Valencia, specialising in cosmology, particularly the study of the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe and the formation and evolution of galaxies. He was a pioneer in the application of fractals in this field of research, as well as in the introduction of their study into university teaching in Spain. He is one of the authors of the giant planet with Trojans theory to explain the mysterious behaviour of Tabby's star.
A staunch advocate of scientific dissemination and the transmission of knowledge to society, he received the 2013 José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination for his work.
Bernard J. T. Jones is Emeritus Professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His research has covered many areas of astrophysics, both theoretical and observational, with a strong emphasis on cosmology, where he is widely published and cited. He is the author of the recent and acclaimed book Precision Cosmology: The First Half Million Years (CUP, 2017) and of The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance (World Scientific, 2023), co-authored with Vicent J. Martínez and Virginia Trimble.
Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance
Scientists Vicent J. Martínez and Bernard J. T. Jones will be discussing the research carried out and published in their book The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance.
This talk will be chaired by Sonia Antoranz Contera, Professor of Biological Physics at Oxford Univesity and member of CERU-SRUK (Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom).
Vicent J. Martínez is a Spanish astronomer and professor at the University of Valencia, specialising in cosmology, particularly the study of the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe and the formation and evolution of galaxies. He was a pioneer in the application of fractals in this field of research, as well as in the introduction of their study into university teaching in Spain. He is one of the authors of the giant planet with Trojans theory to explain the mysterious behaviour of Tabby's star.
A staunch advocate of scientific dissemination and the transmission of knowledge to society, he received the 2013 José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination for his work.
Bernard J. T. Jones is Emeritus Professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His research has covered many areas of astrophysics, both theoretical and observational, with a strong emphasis on cosmology, where he is widely published and cited. He is the author of the recent and acclaimed book Precision Cosmology: The First Half Million Years (CUP, 2017) and of The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance (World Scientific, 2023), co-authored with Vicent J. Martínez and Virginia Trimble.