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

at they sneaked out of the dining room during meals. Higgs didn't have the opportunity to join the discussions then and therefore didn't learn from Glashow about his novel proposal for unifying the electromagnetic and weak forces, which he had already submitted for publication. 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTol

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

the issue for the next few years as a National Science Foundation post- doctoral researcher in Copenhagen. In his Nobel lecture twenty years later, Glashow indicated that he and Schwinger had planned to write a manuscript on the subject after Glashow graduated, but one of them lost the first draft of t

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

sis is like. It is not easy, and I have tried.” Gerald Holton American physicist, historian of science, and educator. “Thank you for sending me Mr. Glashow's remarkable and engaging essay.” Jim Hudspeth Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University. “Wow! I am very impressed by both