First Principles and Beyond

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Feb 18, 202500:29:23Science & Medicine

Chris Pickard is a materials scientist who employs what are called first principles methods—modeling techniques that work out material properties using fundamental rules such as quantum mechanics and Newton’s laws. Train...

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