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Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425 June 28, 2013 ©2013 by The Royal Society
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Page 1: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science

by J. Michael T. Thompson

Philosophical Transactions AVolume 371(1993):20120425

June 28, 2013

©2013 by The Royal Society

Page 2: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

All a matter of balance.

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(a) ‘Saint Jerome as Cardinal’ by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541–1614) reproduced courtesy of the National Gallery, London.

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(a) An electroplated spherical shell made at Stanford by Nicolas Hoff and his team.

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Page 5: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

A letter from Rodney Hill, FRS, editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, in which he drew my attention to the work of Koiter.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 6: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

The Hubble telescope which needed expensive in-flight repairs due to errors made in the grinding of its massive primary mirror.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Imperfection-sensitivity surfaces for the interactive buckling of a stiffened plate calculated and drawn by Giles Hunt.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 8: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

An illustration from Thompson & Stewart's book [18] showing stroboscopic Poincaré sections of a periodically driven nonlinear oscillator, illustrating a steady-state sub-harmonic motion of

order n=2.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 9: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

A schematic three-dimensional sketch illustrating the structure of the tangled saddle-node bifurcation.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 10: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

Enthusiastic A-level students launching rockets that they have designed and built during a one-week residential course at the Villiers Park centre in Foxton.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Detail from a photograph taken at the IUTAM Collapse symposium held in London in 1982, showing three participants at the reception held under the UCL dome.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 12: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

The complex spatially chaotic load–deflection diagram for an infinitely long strut on a nonlinear elastic foundation.

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Page 13: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

Two advanced concepts of nonlinear dynamics whose discoveries allowed the formulation of the simple practical idea of transient capsize testing.

J. Michael T. Thompson Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013;371:20120425

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Page 14: Advice to a young researcher: with reminiscences of a life in science by J. Michael T. Thompson Philosophical Transactions A Volume 371(1993):20120425.

The notional histogram of a young researcher, Jane Smith, showing papers listed in order of decreasing number of citations (not chronologically).

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Four plots of papers published and citations gained (both are cumulative) for the early careers of four scientists.

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