This article first appeared in the April 2018 issue of Physics World
Botany may be as valuable for physicists as physics is for botanists, finds Robert P Crease
Flower power: Karl Niklas is a botanist at Cornell University and co-author of the book Plant Physics. (Courtesy: Craig Cramer, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University)
Karl Niklas got his 15 minutes of fame in 1981. A botanist at Cornell University, he used a wind tun
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