Back to the thesis

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We share Nature’s back to the thesis videos, and some of our favorite #threewordthesis tweets

Last week, Nature visited a few prominent scientists to take them back to their theses.

First up was Francis Collins, director of the NIH, with Semiclassical theory of vibrationally inelastic scattering, with application to H+ and H2 (1974). This is how it went.

 

Next, Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT, revisits Extrasolar giant planets under strong stellar irradiation (1999).

 

Finally, Uta Frith, an autism pioneer and professor at University College London, takes a second look at Pattern detection in normal and autistic children (1968).

 

The videos prompted a resurgence of the #threewordthesis on Twitter. They ranged from the impressively accurate:

https://twitter.com/LonelyProbe/status/751420188818493440

to the defeatist:

https://twitter.com/Julie_B92/status/750731171756122112

https://twitter.com/KathieDello/status/751477131973005313

to the practical:

https://twitter.com/mgmakai/status/751450587145928704

https://twitter.com/henrygeenature/status/750647420434935808

to the perhaps-just-a-litte-bit-glib:

https://twitter.com/FlySci/status/751081031864872962

https://twitter.com/DrRubidium/status/750698908410458113

And, finally and inevitably, to the political.

https://twitter.com/ScientistTrump/status/750782956478799874

 

Can you describe your thesis in three words? Let us know on Twitter.