Talk:Marin Soljačić

Hidden away
Why is this hidden away with Marin Soljacic, the spelling on his faculty page, a redlink? Gene Nygaard (talk) 14:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up. SWik78 (talk) 14:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

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Nature Nanotechnology paper
Regarding the Soljacic's role in the Nature Nanotechnology paper discussed in the article, there are two supporting reliable sources:
 * news.mit.edu lists Soljacic is one of the three primary authors, while Ognjen Ilic is just given a mention. The article also quotes Soljacic on the subject matter.
 * economist.com also says something to that effect (I can't access it now due to free article limit there)

Please provide evidence, using reliable secondary sources, that Soljacic is indeed not one of the primary authors. In that case, we might discuss the alternatives to the current text. GregorB (talk) 10:00, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

"[...] it is stupid to set this paper apart because there are a dozen more important papers" No, it's not stupid. For this particular paper, there are two very solid sources which focus on it (rather than e.g. just mentioning it in passing), which tells me this is not some obscure work and is important enough to be given two sentences in one's bio. I'm not aware of any of these "more important papers", but if indeed there are some, of course they could be mentioned in the article - surely everyone is free to do so.

A number of claims have been made (Soljacic not a primary author, a dozen or so more important papers), but no evidence has been provided. Please discuss here, with concrete evidence, otherwise your edits can (and likely will) be reverted again. GregorB (talk) 07:44, 18 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Also, what the article says ("A prototype bulb achieved light efficiency of 6.6%, far above conventional incandescent bulbs.") should at least reasonably imply this is something both novel and important. GregorB (talk) 07:51, 18 May 2018 (UTC)


 * I have already given you a source when I edited the article. Check for a corresponding (senior) author. There is only one.
 * https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2015.309


 * Corresponding author <> senior author: "The corresponding authors of a paper are those to whom readers can address questions, requests for materials, or even suggestions for further work." These are usually, but not always, senior authors. Moreover, there can be only one corresponding author, even when there are multiple senior authors, so having a person listed a a corresponding author does not imply he or she is the only significant contributor. See also e.g..
 * The question still remains as to why these two sentences are unimportant for Soljacic's bio. It may be unimportant if:
 * Soljacic's role in the paper is marginal, and/or
 * The paper's importance is marginal.
 * I don't think #2 is a reasonable claim, so I'll try to find more evidence (dis)proving #1. GregorB (talk) 12:23, 18 May 2018 (UTC)

Why don't you tell me why some paper with 23 citations according to Nature is so important it needs to be written down? Don't tell me newspaper articles give that impression.


 * Are you in any way connected to the paper or its authors? GregorB (talk) 18:52, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * No, are you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.156.146.229 (talk) 19:37, 21 May 2018 (UTC)


 * No, I'm not.


 * Here, O. Ilic is described as the "lead author", but the "team" is generally credited for the work ("a team of MIT researchers describes", "the team solved the problem"). As I already noted, someone's primary authorship does not nullify the contributions of others who have been listed as the main authors, and - unless one implies Soljacic and others are blatantly piggybacking on Ilic's work - I still don't see how the relevance of the paper in Soljacic's bio can be entirely dismissed. That being said, I don't see it as particularly important either, so that's it, I'm leaving it for other editors to decide. GregorB (talk) 08:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)