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Burton Richter says pull the plug (in a nice way)

Martin
in Modern and Theoretical Physics

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Physics Today gave Richter the October guest op-ed soap-box

 

http://www.physicstoday.org/servlet/PrintPT

 

 

For an idea of who Richter is, here's an autobiographical piece he did last year

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/richter-autobio.html

 

he is a wise elder statesman and he puts in his thoughts about the world, not just the facts of his life.

 

the facts are stuff like

Born 1931

Nobel 1976

director of SLAC 1984-1999

 

 

alternate Physics Today link:

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-10/p8.html

 

thanks for the link go to Clark in this Not Even Wrong thread

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=468

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