The Chronicle of Higher Education

Major Breakthrough in Steve Research

By DANIEL ENGBER

More scientists named Steve live on the East and West Coasts than anywhere else in the United States, according to a groundbreaking research paper. Among the study's authors were Stephen W. Hawking, two Nobel Prize-winning physicists named Steve, and 437 other scientists named Steve, Steven, Stephen, Stephane, or Stephanie.

The paper emerged from the National...

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