Excellent audience at the ORT "Atelier des Sciences" conference, kindly covered by alsacien newspaper @dnatweets . Thank you to professor J. Wolff for organizing, and to @ORTStrasbourg for support.
Definitively amongst the grands that Philip quotes, here at 71 on a conference about liquids in 2002 on the Yangtze river, and still going strong. Household names in this generation got diluted by a massive expansion of the scientific communities.
@philipcball @RogerHighfield There must be a pebble lover at the @royalsociety. Congratulations Phil for the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture, we all need many more of your stories.