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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

3 years

John Preskill of @Caltech physics and @IQIM_Caltech remembers Wightman and Wheeler @PrincetonPhys , Weinberg and Coleman @harvardphysics , magnetic monopoles, the meaning of black hole information, Shor's Algorithm, and the origins of quantum computing

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Ed Witten of @the_IAS describes his interest in #quantuminformation , the work of @gthooft in gauge theory and his entree to string theory, current algebra with Steve Weinberg, the origin of M-theory, and what it means to make peace with the #multiverse

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David Griffiths of @Reed_College_ remembers growing up in college towns, mass-less field theory @harvardphysics , the November Revolution @SLACLab , the singularity of Sidney Coleman's lectures, and the dynamism of #electrodynamics in historical perspective

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Subir Sachdev of @harvardphysics remembers childhood in Bangalore, undergrad @iitdelhi and @ScienceMIT , thesis on metallic glasses, #quantum spins @BellLabs , appointment @Yale , the origin of SYK and its impact on quantum gravity, and the future of High Tc

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Paul Steinhardt of @PrincetonPhys recalls Feynman @Caltech , gauge theory @harvardphysics , postdoc @IBMResearch , inflation and entree to cosmology, quasicrystals @pennphys , problems with #BigBang , and the #multiverse as a possible but nonscientific concept

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Alexei Kitaev of @Caltech physics and @IQIM_Caltech recalls childhood in Russia, college @mipt_eng , thesis research on quasicrystals, meeting @preskill and quantum information theory, and contributions in AdS/CFT, topological phases, and superconductivity

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Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General @CERN , recounts life in Milano, experimental physics @LaStatale , the origins of #LHC and the @CMSExperiment and @ATLASexperiment teams, the profundity of the #Higgs discovery, and the bright future of high energy physics

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Matthew Fisher of @UCSBPhysics recalls life in a physics household, college @CornellPhysics , condensed matter with Tony Leggett @PhysicsIllinois , the singularity of Phil Anderson, research in high Tc, and exploring the brain as a quantum mechanical system

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In her oral history, @AstroKatie of @NCState (soon to be @Perimeter ), recounts her undergrad work at @Caltech , her research on axions and devotion to #scicomm , and she considers the idea of the universe as having a narrative arc with a beginning and end

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Michael Nielsen, co-author of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, remembers @UNM and Carl Caves, @preskill and the origin story of @IQIM_Caltech , appointments @UQ_News and @Perimeter , and connecting knowledge production to #openscience advocacy

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The late Steve Weinberg of @TexasScience reflects on the historic distinctions and overlapping areas of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology in his final oral history interview

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Leonard Susskind recalls the Bronx, discovering physics @CCNY , Hans Bethe @CornellPhysics , appointment @YUNews , the Veneziano amplitude and #stringtheory , debating black holes with Stephen Hawking, and considering God's existence through quantum mechanics

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Dave Wineland of @uoregon physics describes childhood in Sacramento, measuring the electron g-factor at @PhysicsUwa , the world-class instruments offered by @NIST , building atomic clocks, and what it was like to win the @NobelPrize

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Michael Peskin of @SLAClab recalls upbringing in PA, college @harvardphysics , quark confinement @CornellPhysics , writing about #QFT , the promise of the ILC, current work on electroweak symmetry, and the future impact of e+e- physics on the Standard Model

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N. David Mermin of @CornellPhysics recalls childhood in CT, the Jordan Curve @harvardphysics , super-conductivity with Paul Martin, the origins of Boojum and delighting in obscure research, and relating quantum physics to the nature of scientific knowledge

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Elliott Lieb of @Princeton Math and Physics remembers life in the Bronx, the impact of McCarthyism, education @ScienceMIT and @unibirmingham , appointments @YUNews and @MITMath , and a #mathematicalphysics perspective for both classical and quantum problems

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Guifré Vidal of @Google describes the unique research culture at @IQIM_Caltech , appointment at @Perimeter , research in #tensor networks and applications in many-body #quantum systems, and the value of quantum information from #statmech to gravity research

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Alexey Gorshkov of @JQInews , @NIST , and @UMDPhysics remembers study in quantum science @harvardphysics , joining @IQIM_Caltech and connecting quantum computing to the real world, and a research agenda spanning #optics , condensed matter, and atomic physics

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Robert Schoelkopf of @YalePhysicsDept and @Yale_QI recalls childhood in NYC, #gravity research @PrincetonPhys , work @NASAGoddard , astrophysics @Caltech , building #qubits and the influence of Devoret and Girvin, and his ongoing focus on fundamental science

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, @IBJIYONGI , of @UofNH Physics/Astronomy, recounts childhood in LA and her family's commitment to #CivilRights , cultural dislocation @Harvard , LQG research with Lee Smolin, being an #MLK fellow @MIT , and service to @NSBPInc

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Ad Bax, Section Chief of Chemical Physics at @NIDDKgov , recounts growing up on a farm in the Netherlands, he describes the history of NMR spectroscopy, its impact on understanding protein structure, and its broader value for health science research

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Dave Bacon of @Google remembers neural networks @Caltech , decoherence-free subspaces @UCBerkeley , returning to @IQIM_Caltech and the pursuit of error correction, appointments @uwcse and @IonQ_Inc , and pursuing a "middle way" to scalable #quantum computing

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Ana Maria Rey of @NIST , @JILAscience , and @CUBoulder recalls upbringing in Colombia, college @uandes , ultra-cold atoms @UMDPhysics , AMO physics @CenterForAstro , being a @macfound fellow, metrology, and translating the #quantumadvantage to application

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Steve Girvin of @Yale_QI describes working with John Hopfield on optical fluorescence data from a semiconductor, his research at @NIST on neutron scattering and the quantum Hall effect, and what the future holds for #quantuminformation

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Carol Davis reflects on 50 years of administrative service to the Department of Physics @Harvard . Typing theses. Navigating crises. Celebrating discovery. Coordinating curricula. Providing emotional support. Witnessing the steady embrace of #inclusivity .

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Frank Wilczek of @ScienceMIT remembers a working class upbringing in NYC, college @UChicagoPSD , David Gross and asymptotic freedom @Princeton , experimental validation of QCD theory and @NobelPrize , and the profound value of particle physics to #cosmology

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Andy Strominger of @harvardphysics remembers living on a commune in college, how Calabi-Yau space pushes physics toward a new theory of nature, the information paradox that is posed by black holes, and why work in string theory is a gamble worth pursuing

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Barry Barish of @Caltech and @LIGO remembers life in Los Angeles, study @BerkeleyPhysics , W Boson @Fermilab , rise and fall of the SSC, Rai Weiss and partnership with @MIT , detecting gravitational waves and @NobelPrize , and #AI as key to cosmology's future

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Bert Halperin of @harvardphysics recalls childhood in Brooklyn, a summer visit @LosAlamosNatLab on #neutronscattering , graduate work at @Princeton , his research career at Bell Labs, and longtime work on the quantum Hall effect and one-dimensional systems

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Brian Schmidt of @ourANU recalls childhood in Montana, physics and astronomy @uarizona , Bob Kirshner and supernovae @CenterForAstro , the origins of the High-Z collaboration and @NobelPrize , the import of SkyMapper, and grape growing in a changing climate

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Cumrun Vafa of @harvardphysics remembers childhood in Iran, formalism vs. intuition, college @ScienceMIT , learning from @witten271 @PrincetonPhys , the origins of "Swampland" and F-theory, and why #stringtheory is limited more by technology than reality

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Jerry C. Elliott-High Eagle recounts upbringing in OK and #Cherokee heritage, being the first Native American to attain a degree in physics from @UofOklahoma , work as Lead Retrofire Officer for the Apollo 13 mission @NASA and receiving the #medaloffreedom

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@ZierlerDavid

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Liang Jiang of @UChicagoPME remembers AMO research @harvardphysics , the creation of @IQIM_Caltech and the support of @NSF , the quantum information partnership between @Caltech and @awscloud , and the #quantumcomputing potential for sensing and transduction

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Isaac Kim of @UCDavisCOE recounts thesis work with @preskill on many-body systems and #quantum information @IQIM_Caltech , the benchmarks required to create scalable quantum computing, the key role of #condensedmatter , and the engineering approach of @IBM

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Gareth McKinley of @MITEngineering recalls childhood in England, education @Cambridge_Eng , thesis on nonlinear dynamics of viscoelastic flow, focus on #rheology and leadership in polymer research, and longstanding interest in microfluidics

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Jim Simons, former chairman of the @SimonsFdn and Renaissance Technologies, recalls growing up in Boston, faculty appointment @stonybrooku , and he explains his move from academic mathematics to investing, to become the first, and greatest, #quant

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Bill Unruh of @UBCphas and @TAMUScience recalls #Mennonite childhood in Manitoba, topology and GR with John Wheeler @PrincetonPhys , Roger Penrose and @BirkbeckUoL , research on black holes, decoherence, and @LIGO , and his ambition for the Gravity Archive

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Frank Verstraete of @ugent recounts thesis @KU_Leuven , quantum optics @maxplanckpress , a "golden era" of quantum information @IQIM_Caltech , and research in many body physics, #tensor networks and #quantum entanglement in the pursuit of fundamental physics

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Barry Simon of @Caltech PMA remembers upbringing in Brooklyn, college @harvardphysics , thesis @PrincetonPhys , the import of #Schrodinger Operators and spectral theory, #gematria and the Torah Codes controversy, and the power of youthfulness in mathematics

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Stephen Jordan of @Microsoft Quantum Systems and @JointQuICS recounts the origins of the Quantum Algorithm Zoo @ScienceMIT , creation of @IQIM_Caltech , research in complexity theory and #heuristics , and the future rewrite of digital encryption and security

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Jeongwan Haah of @MSFTResearch describes arriving @IQIM_Caltech from @SNUnow , investigating natural mechanisms to preserve a quantum qubit, merging condensed matter and quantum information @ScienceMIT , and building algorithms for #quantum error correction

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@ZierlerDavid

3 years

Mark Wise of @Caltech physics recounts his graduate research at @SLACLab on weak radiative hyperon decays, how his collaboration with Joe Polchinski helped spark his interest in #cosmology , and his current work on conformal Fermi coordinates

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Steve Chu of @Stanford_MCP and Physics recalls his high achieving family, math @UofR , weak interactions @BerkeleyPhysics , lasers @BellLabs , leadership @BerkeleyLab , accepting the offer from @BarackObama to be Secretary of @Energy , and winning @NobelPrize

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bj Bjorken remembers the "Western exodus" from @Harvard to @Stanford in particle physics, thesis research on scattering amplitudes, the November Revolution @SLAClab , quark/gluon confinement, the E137 axion search @Fermilab , and current work in #DarkEnergy

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@ZierlerDavid

2 years

Graeme Smith of @CUArtsSciences and @JILAscience recounts quantum information @Caltech before @IQIM_Caltech , quantum science @IBMResearch , #metrology and assessing physics as a limiting factor, and parsing hype and reality in the coming quantum revolution

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Nergis Mavalvala, Dean of @ScienceMIT , recalls childhood in Pakistan, working in the machine shop @Wellesley , meeting Rai Weiss and coming out in grad school, joining the @LIGO group @Caltech , and the wondrous achievement detecting #gravitationalwaves

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Mark Trodden of @pennphys recounts a working class upbringing in England, math @Cambridge_Uni , cosmic strings @brown_physics , postdoc with Guth @ScienceMIT , appointment @ArtSciencesSU , why inflation resists experiment, and the goals of particle #cosmology

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Daniel Gottesman of @JointQuICS and @umiacs remembers tackling quantum error correction @IQIM_Caltech at the dawn of #quantuminformation , appointment @Perimeter , research in fault tolerance and stabilizer codes, and the idea to create a quantum telescope

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Marcelle Soares-Santos of @UmichPhysics remembers childhood in Brazil, physics @usponline , galaxy clusters @Fermilab , the advances made by @theDESurvey , faculty appointment @BrandeisScience , and the possibility that dark energy is actually dark energies

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David Gross of @KITP_UCSB and @UCSBPhysics recalls math @HebrewU , S-matrix theory @BerkeleyPhysics , work with Frank Wilczek on QCD and @NobelPrize , service @APSphysics , and returning to string theory since the inception to explore its underlying truths

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Spiros Michalakis of @IQIM_Caltech recounts leaving Greece for @ScienceMIT , mathematical physics @ucdavis , postdoc @LosAlamosNatLab , meeting @preskill , partnership with @NSF , Hollywood consulting, and dual work on many-body physics and quantum outreach

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Andreas Albrecht of @UCD_physics and #QMAP remembers childhood @Cornell , the influences of Alan Guth, inflationary cosmology @PennSAS , cosmic strings @ArtsSciencesUT , the philosophical impact of the #anthropic principle, and the mysteries of the Big Bang

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Jo Dunkley of @Princeton Astrophysics recalls life in London, college @Cambridge_Uni , CMB research with Pedro Ferreira @OxfordPhysics , the import of WMAP @PrincetonPhys , affiliation with @VRubinObs , and understanding neutrino mass and the #Hubble constant

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Donna Strickland of @WaterlooSci recalls life in Nova Scotia, engineering physics @McMasterScience , short laser pulses @UofR , appointments @NRC_CNRC and @Livermore_Lab , chirped pulse amplification and @NobelPrize , and new focus on #quantum entanglement

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Chris Monroe of @DukePhysics and @IonQ_Inc recalls upbringing in Detroit, college @ScienceMIT , Bose condensation @PhysicsColorado , ion trapping @NIST , pulsed lasers @UmichPhysics , the origins of @JointQuICS , and the long path to scalable #quantumcomputing

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Mike Creutz of @BrookhavenLab describes his father's work @LosAlamosNatLab , college @Caltech , thesis @Stanford on deep inelastic scattering, Ken Wilson and #renormalization , where lattice gauge theory is "stuck," and current interest in chiral symmetry

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Michael Dine of @ucsc and "consummate theorist" according to @preskill , recalls quarks and QCD with Appelquist @YalePhysicsDept , electron-positron work @SLAClab , axion-dark matter @the_IAS , supersymmetry without #LHC , and g-2 #muon wobbling excitement

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Claire Max of @UCSCscience and @UCObservatories recalls childhood in NYC, college at Radcliffe, pulsars @Princeton , laser plasma and adaptive optics @Livermore_Lab , excitement on #exoplanets , a path forward on @TMTHawaii , and being the first woman #JASON

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Savas Dimopoulos of @Stanford Physics remembers his family's Greek roots in Turkey, arrival in the US and college @UH_NSM , working with Yoichiro Nambu @UChicagoPSD , postdoc @PhysicsColumbia , research in baryogenesis, and the path beyond the Standard Model

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Andrew Childs of @umdcs , @umiacs , and @JointQuICS recounts his early interest in quantum information as a @Caltech undergrad, quantum algorithms @MIT_Physics , postdoc return @IQIM_Caltech , and the emergence of the national capitol region as a #quantum hub

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Juan Maldacena of @the_IAS recalls upbringing in Buenos Aires, string theory @IBalseiro , QFT with @witten271 at @PrincetonPhys , Polchinski and D-Branes, developing ADS/CFT @harvardphysics , cosmology and black holes, and getting closer to #quantumgravity

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Debbie Leung @QuantumIQC and @WaterlooMath recounts college @Caltech , robust quantum computation @Stanford , appointments @IBMResearch and @mathmoves , return to @IQIM_Caltech , and work in quantum communications, #cryptography , time travel, and entanglement

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Stanley Deser of @BrandeisScience recalls the differing styles of Schwinger and Feynman, creating ADM Formalism with Misner and Arnowitt, research in numerical #relativity and quantum gravity, Zumino and supergravity, and minimizing hand waving in physics

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Stephon Alexander of @brown_physics remembers childhood in Trinidad, college @haverfordedu , thesis on string cosmology, appointments @ImperialPhysics and @SLAClab , service @NSBPInc , prospects for quantum gravity, and merging jazz, philosophy, and science

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Young-Kee Kim of @UChicagoPSD recalls upbringing in South Korea, quarks and gluons @UofR , the #CDF experiment with @BerkeleyLab and #ATLAS research @CERN , the Tevatron's end @Fermilab , #Higgs and the search for new physics, and love of #electromagnetism

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Ed Bertschinger of @ScienceMIT and @MITWGS recalls radio astronomy @Caltech , Penzias @PrincetonPhys , the centrality of charge-coupled device detectors in #astronomy , his perception of toxic masculinity in the field, and consequent focus on #gender studies

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Philip Phillips of @PhysicsIllinois reflects on childhood in Tobago, single molecule #fluorescence work @UWChemistry , pursuing physics @ChemistryMIT , the #dimer model, service to @NSBPInc , and goals to resolve the Hubbard problem and advance high #Tc

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Gia Dvali of @LMU_Muenchen and @maxplanckpress recalls upbringing and education in Tbilisi, appointments @ictpnews and @NYUPhysics , and research on black hole information, neural networks in #cosmology , Einstein gravity and the Planck length, and saturons

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Jim Gates of @BrownUniversity recounts navigating racism in childhood, string theory @ScienceMIT and supersymmetry @Caltech , professing @UMDPhysics and contributions to @AIP_TEAMUP , service to #PCAST and @APSphysics , and policy leadership @WatsonInstitute

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Howard Stone of @EPrinceton and @PrincetonMolBio remembers college @UCDavisCOE , thesis research on fluid shearing @Caltech , postdoc @FacultyMaths , faculty appointment @hseas , and leading the Complex Fluids Group in support of interdisciplinary research

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Persis Drell, Provost @Stanford , recalls growing up in a world of physics, her time at @Wellesley and research at @BerkeleyPhysics , her leadership @SLAClab and appointment to @CornellPhysics , and why students should remain optimistic about the future

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Carl Caves of @UofNM Physics recalls upbringing in OK, college @RiceUniversity , Kip Thorne and #gravity research @Caltech , squeezing light for @LIGO and @ego_virgo , the rise of quantum #metrology , and the revolutionary advances by Marlan Scully on #lasers

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Pierre Ramond of @ufphysics describes WWII in Paris, college @NJIT , GR @ArtSciencesSU , Veneziano modeling @Fermilab , the #superstring revolution of 1984, @APSphysics and the discovery of the #Higgs , supersymmetry, and Einstein's views on quantum mechanics

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Abhay Ashtekar of @penn_state physics recounts his upbringing in India, the formative mentorship of Bob Geroch at @UChicagoPSD , and the goal of loop quantum gravity to merge quantum mechanics and general relativity and to break beyond the #StandardModel

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Shelly Glashow of @BU_CAS and @Harvard recalls childhood in NYC, early friendship with Steve Weinberg, college @Cornell , postdoc theory on SU(2)XU(1) and @NobelPrize , working with Gell-Mann at @Caltech , and his complicated relationship with #stringtheory

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Nicole Yunger Halpern of @NIST , @JointQuICS and @JQInews recalls physics @Dartmouth , resource theory @Perimeter , quantum thermodynamics @IQIM_Caltech , AMO experiments @CenterForAstro , and the vibrancy of government-academic partnerships in quantum science

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Chris Quigg of @Fermilab recalls upbringing in PA, accelerators @YalePhysicsDept , JD Jackson and rho mesons @BerkeleyPhysics , appointment @stonybrooku , W and Z bosons and Lederman’s discovery of the Upsilon, and exciting prospects in high energy physics

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Marlan Scully of @TAMUPhysAstr recalls learning physics @UWyonews and @rpi , laser research @YalePhysicsDept , appointment @MIT_Physics and the origin of @UAZOpticalSci , quantum #optics , and the value of his @Princeton partnership on chemical applications

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Gordy Kane of @UmichPhysics recounts nucleon scattering @PhysicsIllinois , the omega minus @BrookhavenLab , Murray Gell-Man and group theory, the value of string theory at the #Planck scale, M theory and the Standard Model, and fascination with quark masses

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Bob Jaffe of @ScienceMIT discusses his interests in physics and social justice @Princeton , deep inelastic electron scattering and the parton model with Sid Drell @Stanford , the egalitarian approach to science @MIT , and recent work on the physics of energy

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Paula Hammond of @MITChemE and @kochinstitute remembers childhood in Detroit and her father's work with @NAACP , education and research in polymer technology @ScienceMIT , interface with biology, lithography, batteries, and optimism for #mRNA applications

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John Schwarz of @Caltech physics recalls upbringing in NY, college @HarvardMath , Geoff Chew's S-Matrix @BerkeleyPhysics and the origins of #stringtheory , Feynman and #QCD , the 1984 string revolution with Michael Green, and expecting #supersymmetry @CERN

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Marty Israel of @WashUPhysics recounts the historic connections between @UChicago and @Caltech in cosmic ray research, the origin story of capturing the Feynman Lectures in 1961, and Richard Feynman's singular abilities as the "Great Explainer" of physics

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Kate Kirby, CEO Emerita @APSphysics , recounts childhood in DC, college @harvardphysics , chemical physics @UChicagoPSD , postdoc and leadership @CenterForAstro , research in atmospheric physics, and the profound achievements of women in the physical sciences

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Geoff West of @sfiscience recalls life in the UK, college @Cambridge_Uni , Panofsky and early years @SLACLab , the influence of Ken Wilson @CornellPhysics , quark models @harvardphysics , the theory group @LosAlamosNatLab , and pivoting to biological research

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Paul Chaikin of @NYUPhysics recalls childhood in Brooklyn, college @Caltech , the #Kondo effect @PennSAS , soft matter physics @UCLA and @Princeton , research @exxonmobil , and discovering that ellipsoids (like M&Ms) are most efficient in packing applications

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Joe DeSimone of @StanfordEng recalls chemistry @UrsinusCollege , polymer thesis research @VTChemDept , teaching @uncchemistry and @NCState , bio-nanotechnology and gene therapy work, the origins of @Carbon , and why Thiel's "Zero to One" concept resonates

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Gerard 't Hooft of @UniUtrecht remembers postwar Holland, sharing the @NobelPrize with his mentor Martinus Veltman, research in QCD and instantons, the Einstein-Bohr debate in historical context, and thinking ever more deeply about #quantummechanics

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Walter Massey of @giantmagellan recalls childhood in segregated Mississippi, college @Morehouse , a formative summer @physicscolumbia , helium-3 @brown_physics , appointment @argonne and reaction to the murder of #MLK , and leadership @NSF in support of @LIGO

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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France Córdova recounts her winding path toward astrophysics at @Caltech , leadership positions with @UCRiverside , @NASA @LifeAtPurdue and @NSF , and perspective on academic-government partnership for the best in scientific research

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Rai Weiss of @ScienceMIT recalls childhood in NYC, the mentorship of Jerrold Zacharias, thesis on hydrogen fluoride, Bob Dicke and the mainstreaming of GR, and the @Caltech , @MIT , and @NSF partnership leading to @LIGO , #gravitationalwaves and @NobelPrize

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Dave Pine of @nyutandon recalls undergrad @WheatonCollege , hydrogen diffusion research @CornellPhysics , spinodal decomposition @PhyAstro_Pitt , basic science at #Exxon , polymer work @UCSBChE , and the multidisciplinary development of #softmatter physics

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Rob Phillips of @Caltech BBE recounts surfing and working as an electrician in San Diego, bypassing traditional college, stat-mech @WashUPhysics , quasicrystals @CornellPhysics , solid mechanics @brownengin , and studying the global impact of human existence

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Roger Blandford of @Stanford and @SLAClab recounts childhood in England, research with Martin Rees on accretion discs @Cambridge_Uni , QED @the_IAS , relativistic jets @Caltech , and current work on @ehtelescope and the concept of handedness in #astrophysics

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

2 years

Howard Georgi of @harvardphysics recounts childhood in NJ, quantum field theory with Shelly Glashow, the Thirring model @YalePhysicsDept , Weinberg and #leptons , the significance of SU(5), "unparticle" theory, and his efforts to make physics more inclusive

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

1 year

Reina Maruyama of @YalePhysicsDept describes upbringing in Japan, education @PhysicsColumbia , atomic lasers @UWArtSci , neutrino-less double beta decays and @uw_icecube , partnership @Yale_QI , and connecting quantum technology to astrophysics and #cosmology

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

1 year

Joel Lebowitz of @RutgersSAS remembers surviving #Auschwitz , first exposure to theoretical physics @BrooklynCollege , research on Coulomb forces and stochastic dynamics, service @NYASciences , and an approach to humanism that blends science and morality

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

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Bob Cava of @PrincetonChem remembers childhood in Brooklyn, #crystallography and sulfides @ChemistryMIT , sodium electrolytes @MITLL , ceramic superconductors @BellLabs , the import of the #YCBO collaboration, and exciting developments in thermo-electronics

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

1 year

Mikhail Shifman of @UMNCSE recounts a Soviet-Jewish upbringing and a Russian perspective on physics, @SLACLab and the penguin mechanism, connecting Yang-Mills with #supersymmetry , research in axions, and the challenge of writing about theoretical physics

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David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

1 year

George Whitesides of @HarvardCCB remembers life in Kentucky, education @phillipsacademy , thesis research @CaltechCCE on Grignard reagents, #NMR spectroscopy @ChemistryMIT , and interests ranging from robotics to the origins of life on Earth

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