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A Conversation with Valentine L. Telegdi---Part II (2008)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Eckert, Michael
Artin, Tom
Turchetti, Simone
Tsesmelis, Emmanuel
Taubes, Gary
Sime, Ruth Lewin
Concepts
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Particle accelerators
Quantum mechanics
Particles (nuclear physics)
Theoretical physics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
Switzerland
Germany
Europe
Institutions
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
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