Epstein Secrets

theory—the suc- cessful framework that had so beautifully provided an understanding of the relativistic quantum behavior of electrons and photons. Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew led the development of a popu- lar, influential program to address this problem. Chew gave up the idea that any truly fundam

ound states of other particles. In this sense, there could be no reduction to primary fundamental objects. In this Zen-like picture, appropriate to Berkeley in the 196os, all particles were thought to be made up of other particles—the so-called bootstrap model, in which no elementary particles were prim

and was invited (in 1966) to speak at several locations in the USA, where he was spending a sabbati- cal year. After Higgs's talk at Harvard, where Sheldon Glashow was now a professor, Glashow apparently complimented him on having invented a "nice model" and moved on. Such was the fixation on the strong in- te

ren't even admitted as undergraduates at Ivy League institu- tions until the late 1960s. Almost thirty years after Wu arrived from China to study at Berkeley in 1936, she noted in a Newsweek article about her, "It is shameful that there are so few women in science.... In China there are many, many women

lating the weak interac- tion to electromagnetism that he encouraged one of his dozen graduate students at Harvard at the time to explore the issue. Sheldon Glashow graduated in 1958 with a thesis on the subject and continued to explore the issue for the next few years as a National Science Foundation post- doc

your e-mail as well as sending me earlier a recent copy of Inference. In principle I'd be happy to contribute a piece.” Jay Cordes Data scientist at Berkeley. “In addition to Data Science, I’m also very interested in Quantum Mechanics, so I may have to subscribe to your journal; it looks fantastic!” Eman

ughtful venue. I was very impressed with the quality of the work and the list of illustrious contributors. I'm honored to be invited to contribute.” Sheldon Glashow Nobel Prize, Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Higgins Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Harvard University. “