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91. Departmental interaction holds the key | 1024 | 04:02 | |
92. The Eightfold Way | 1092 | 02:28 | |
93. Worries about the Caltech report | 883 | 03:32 | |
94. Re-writing the Eightfold Way paper and publishing in 1962 | 1 | 901 | 03:53 |
95. 1962 International Conference at Geneva and the birth of quarks | 981 | 05:28 | |
96. Yuval Ne'eman | 1164 | 04:01 | |
97. Working on Regge pole theory | 703 | 04:29 | |
98. People at Caltech | 1247 | 00:54 | |
99. SU(3) - fundamental triplets | 717 | 01:02 | |
100. Working with Goldberger and Low at MIT | 661 | 02:19 |
Yuval came over, which was very nice, and we worked together for quite a while. Fred Zachariasen, was somebody I'd worked with for a long time. Steve Frautschi came, right after he and Geoff wrote that little paper on the bootstrap. And we had a… a number of post-docs, we had a great number of applications and selected some very good people. The facilities for the post-docs weren't very luxurious. They were all in a great big bull-pen with flimsy partitions between the cubicles, but… but we all had a very good time. It was a very exciting time.
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: People at Caltech
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: Caltech, Yuval Ne'eman, Fred Zachariasen, Steve Frautschi, Geoffrey Chew
Duration: 54 seconds
Date story recorded: October 1997
Date story went live: 24 January 2008