In this wide-ranging and anecdotal interview, the Hungarian experimental physicist Valentine L. Telegdi, who died on April 8, 2006, offers recollections of Enrico Fermi and Gregor Wentzel in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago. He recalls the discovery of quarks in 1963 independently by Murray Gell-Mann at Caltech and George Zweig at CERN. Comments on the establishment of the Erice summer school. Describes his work on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon (the g-minus-2 experiment) with Richard Garwin at CERN. Recalls the colloquium given at the ETH (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in the late 1940s by Richard Feynman. Recalls his 1956 sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study; recollections of John Archibald Wheeler. Comments on the decline of physics at the University of Chicago after Fermi's death (1954) and the switchover from liberal military funding to the more cumbersome NSF grants process; contrasts that with the generosity of the ETH. Comments on his early days at Chicago and his longstanding friendship with Murph [Marvin L.] and Mildred Goldberger. Recalls his three-month stay at Bristol University in 1947 while still a graduate student at ETH and his friendship with Richard Dalitz. Comments on Stephen Hawking. Recollections of P.A.M.Dirac.Comments on Jerome Friedman, Richard Taylor,and Henry Kendall; on Nobel Prizes and the reason for Arnold Sommerfeld's failure to receive one. Recalls receiving the Wolf Prize in 1991 (along with Maurice Goldhaber) and an honorary degree the same year from the University of Chicago.
...MoreDescription Continuation of: JournalArticle; Sara Lippincott; A Conversation with Valentine... (2007) [850203]
Article Lippincott, Sara (2007) A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi -- Part I. Physics in Perspective (p. 434).
Similar Citations
Article
Lippincott, Sara;
(2007)
A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi -- Part I
(/isis/citation/CBB000850203/)
Article
Giudice, Gian Francesco;
(2012)
Big Science and the Large Hadron Collider
(/isis/citation/CBB001220408/)
Book
Alvarez-Gaumé, Luis;
Mangano, Michelangelo L.;
Tsesmelis, Emmanuel;
(2012)
From the PS to the LHC---50 Years of Nobel Memories in High-Energy Physics
(/isis/citation/CBB001213214/)
Book
Kaiser, David;
(2005)
Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
(/isis/citation/CBB000651152/)
Book
Paul Halpern;
(2017)
The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
(/isis/citation/CBB858107777/)
Article
Schweber, S. S.;
(2009)
Weimar Physics: Sommerfeld's Seminar and the Causality Principle
(/isis/citation/CBB000932737/)
Book
Fraser, Gordon;
(1998)
The Particle Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000110625/)
Article
Courvoisier, Nelly;
Clémence, Alain;
Green, Eva G. T.;
(2012)
Man-Made Black Holes and Big Bangs: Diffusion and Integration of Scientific Information into Everyday Thinking
(/isis/citation/CBB001252487/)
Article
Taubes, Gary;
(2003)
Carlo Rubbia and the Discovery of the W and the Z
(/isis/citation/CBB000300382/)
Article
Gross, Ari;
(2012)
Pictures and Pedagogy: The Role of Diagrams in Feynman's Early Lectures
(/isis/citation/CBB001210782/)
Article
Gregorio, Alberto G. de;
(2005)
Neutron Physics in the Early 1930s
(/isis/citation/CBB000774043/)
Article
Krige, John;
(2005)
Isidor I. Rabi and CERN
(/isis/citation/CBB000641829/)
Article
Turchetti, Simone;
(2006)
“For Slow Neutrons, Slow Pay”: Enrico Fermi's Patent and the U.S. Atomic Energy Program, 1938--1953
(/isis/citation/CBB000651095/)
Article
De Gregorio, Alberto;
(2006)
A Far-Reaching Project Behind the Discovery of Neutron-Induced Radioactivity
(/isis/citation/CBB000670177/)
Article
Sime, Ruth Lewin;
(2000)
The search for transuranium elements and the discovery of nuclear fission
(/isis/citation/CBB000110039/)
Book
Eckert, Michael;
(2013)
Arnold Sommerfeld. Atomphysiker und Kulturbote 1868--1951: eine Biografie
(/isis/citation/CBB001214211/)
Book
Michael Eckert;
(2013)
Arnold Sommerfeld: Science, Life and Turbulent Times 1868-1951
(/isis/citation/CBB490294723/)
Article
Perkins, D. H.;
(2013)
An Early Neutrino Experiment: How We Missed Quark Substructure in 1963
(/isis/citation/CBB001320793/)
Article
Guerra, Francesco;
Robotti, Nadia;
(2009)
Enrico Fermi's Discovery of Neutron-Induced Artificial Radioactivity: The Influence of His Theory of Beta Decay
(/isis/citation/CBB000932741/)
Book
Eckert, Michael;
(2013)
Arnold Sommerfeld: Atomphysiker und Kulturbote, 1868--1951: eine Biografie
(/isis/citation/CBB001451357/)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Public Understanding of Science
Physics World
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Be the first to comment!