This is the original seminal work on coffee drop evaporation out of Sid Nagel’s lab, with theoretical support from Tom Witten and Todd Dupont and their students.
Like everything out of the Nagel lab, at least from that era, it combines a keen curiosity about things we take for granted with rigorous physical experiments and insight.
The Nagel/Witten collaboration was one of the many lovely things at the University of Chicago in that era, and it was always tremendous fun to see them present and get a glimpse at how they approached problems.
It was like looking over the shoulder of giants: often humbling and always educational.
Like everything out of the Nagel lab, at least from that era, it combines a keen curiosity about things we take for granted with rigorous physical experiments and insight.
The Nagel/Witten collaboration was one of the many lovely things at the University of Chicago in that era, and it was always tremendous fun to see them present and get a glimpse at how they approached problems.
It was like looking over the shoulder of giants: often humbling and always educational.