Nele Wynants: ‘Leave more room for chance, intuition and unexpected twists’

IN SHORT

 

• Professor Nele Wynants researches how science reached the public at large through travelling shows and fair merchants. 

• She reflects on strokes of luck in historical research, such as chance meetings and finds, but also on setbacks. 

• She concludes by calling for more flexibility in academic research and more attention for the process, experiments and unexpected twists.