{"id":406895,"date":"2017-05-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=e26a2c992899faf90f80dd31b66500fc"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:00:00","slug":"the-quest-for-rigour-in-physics-the-life-and-legacy-of-john-william-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=406895","title":{"rendered":"The quest for rigour in physics\u2014the life and legacy of John William Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over half a century, starting around 1960, physics education was put under the intellectual<br \/>\nmicroscope of a London-based university lecturer \u2014 Dr John Warren. His scrutiny of physics textbooks<br \/>\nand examination papers in particular led him to conduct a sustained assault on error, ambiguity and<br \/>\nlack of rigour in the presentation of our subject. This biographical article attempts to convey<br \/>\nsomething of the nature of the man and his mission, and perhaps to sow the seeds of the reform for<br \/>\nwhich he strove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over half a century, starting around 1960, physics education was put under the intellectual<br \/>\nmicroscope of a London-based university lecturer \u2014 Dr John Warren. His scrutiny of physics textbooks<br \/>\nand examination papers in particular led him to con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}