Co-author of two crossover books: New Ways of Knowing with Marcus G Raskin (and contributions from Susan Buck-Morss, Noam Chomsky, et al) setting out the end of simple value-free amoral defense of sciences and Muddling Through with former student Mike Fortun, recounting how one pursues science and truths in the twenty-first century – taking lessons from and setting theory for the practical work of ISIS. Mike is now Founding Fellow and trustee of the ISIS Institute.

Quantum interferometry: Proposal of 360° rotation experiment helped launch the field of Neutron interference physics. Interferometry makes very massive, neutral elementary particles act like waves to investigate fundamental physics and to measure very small quantities, refined effects and paradoxical behavior.

Basic quantum mechanics: Proving that you can construct lab devices to implement every well-defined quantum measurement -- a problem unsolved since the first quantum textbooks posed it in the 1930's. The solution is useful for the implementation of quantum computations. (done with Hampshire College student Phil Bertani and Australian collaborators.)

Quantum computation and information: Co-author of the first paper on concentrating entanglement, contributing the method first used to demonstrate this important effect. It is based on ideas in my first-year undergraduate course, Quantum Mechanics for the Myriad.

Founder and developer of ISIS: Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies has introduced unique ways for scientists, communities in need, and studiers of the sciences to work together to make sciences and scientists better serve the common good. Major projects have included sustainable agriculture, research on genomics, cleaning up military toxic wastes, and protecting biodiversity and cultural enclaves in the Ecuadorian Amazon at the invitation of indigenes.

Over 50 scientific articles, scores of science talks & conference papers, dozens of presentations on topics ranging from "Muddling Through: Modern Healthcare Systems for China & the US" to "Metaphors in Quantum Teleportation Physics" to "Military Nuclear & Toxic Waste Clean-up, the Community-Science Connection."

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