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Why we should give credit to code creators

09 Mar 2017
Taken from the March 2017 issue of Physics World

With software development becoming ever more important in physics research, Arfon Smith argues that we need to adopt better ways of recognizing those who contribute to this largely unrewarded activity

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Arfon Smith leads the Data Science Mission Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, US, and previously worked at GitHub helping to bring open-source software to academia, arfon.org, @arfon on Twitter
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