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Our work was copied by Bogolyubov and Shirkov in Russia. They copied it almost word for word and the equations with the notation and the equation numbers and so on; they had the nerve to refer to us saying that we had done something similar but wrong, and it was wrong because we used the wrong gauge. Now, how in a gauge invariant theory by using a different gauge one can commit a crime I can't understand, I never could. Anyway, their paper somehow got more attention than ours, so many people thought of this work as the work of Bogolyubov and Shirkov. It was only when Drell and Bjorken published their book that people realized that the work was really ours because they researched the literature and discovered that we had done it and that they had just copied it from us.
New York-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was known for his creation of the eightfold way, an ordering system for subatomic particles, comparable to the periodic table. His discovery of the omega-minus particle filled a gap in the system, brought the theory wide acceptance and led to Gell-Mann's winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.
Title: Bogolyubov, Shirkov and the renormalisation group work
Listeners: Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West is a Staff Member, Fellow, and Program Manager for High Energy Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is also a member of The Santa Fe Institute. He is a native of England and was educated at Cambridge University (B.A. 1961). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1966 followed by post-doctoral appointments at Cornell and Harvard Universities. He returned to Stanford as a faculty member in 1970. He left to build and lead the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at Los Alamos. He has numerous scientific publications including the editing of three books. His primary interest has been in fundamental questions in Physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles and their interactions. His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena grew out of his work on scaling in quantum chromodynamics and the unification of all forces of nature. In 1996 this evolved into the highly productive collaboration with James Brown and Brian Enquist on the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology and the development of realistic quantitative models that analyse the influence of size on the structural and functional design of organisms.
Tags: Russia, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Dmitry Shirkov, Sidney Drell, James Bjorken
Duration: 56 seconds
Date story recorded: October 1997
Date story went live: 24 January 2008