A wide view of science: Science is international, crossing all inhabited continents (well, we can even include Antarctica, given the research going on there, but no one scientist is of Antarctic nationality!). Our grades 6-8 science teacher, Dr. Vince Gutschick, offers his experience as an example, which he brings to the students in the classroom.
In his long career he published with in 23 different international journals with 56 scientists of 12 nationalities: American, Australian, Chinese, Dutch, Ethiopian, French, Indian, Iranian, Israeli, Italian, Mexican, and Polish – shown by red dots in the map below.
Editors or others outside of publication worked with him, coming from seven more nationalities: English, Estonian, German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, and Sri Lankan – shown by yellow dots in the map.
Six nations hosted his work at 16 locations, shown by green dots in the map: 9 locations in the US, 3 locations in Australia, 2 locations in England, and 1 location each in France, Germany, and Mexico.
Yes, science unites the world, person by person. Some of our students may take this great opportunity.
