Epstein Secrets

d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma

I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these romantic heroes—the Feynmans, the Manhattan Project—realized that our career trajectory would at best be working on one project at CERN for fifteen years. That project would either be a failure, in whi

d roboticist, I don’t call myself one”). He began as a physicist. “I turned out to be a bad physicist,” he told me recently. “T struggled on, went to Los Alamos, and thought, ‘Well maybe I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these roma

I’m not going to be a Nobel Prize winner, but I can still be a scientist.’ All of us who were in Physics and had these romantic heroes—the Feynmans, the Manhattan Project—realized that our career trajectory would at best be working on one project at CERN for fifteen years. That project would either be a failure, in whi

ut be reminded of another more recent great experi- mental physicist, Robert R. Wilson—who, at age twenty-nine, was head of the Research Division at Los Alamos, which developed the atomic 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd 30 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00285952 Seeing in the Dark 31 bomb during the Manhattan

at Los Alamos, which developed the atomic 2P_Glealer-StoryEverTold_Atirdd 30 12/16116 3:06 PIA EFTA00285952 Seeing in the Dark 31 bomb during the Manhattan Project. Many years later he was the first director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Il- linois. When Fermilab was being built, in 1