Chad Orzel
@orzelc.bsky.social
Physicist, professor, author of books about science for non-scientists. Longer-form stuff at https://chadorzel.substack.com/
Sort of like The Pogues, but for Beethoven?
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Sort of like The Pogues, but for Beethoven?
APS has also been on a bit of a centralization kick of late in general, which probably doesn't help.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
APS has also been on a bit of a centralization kick of late in general, which probably doesn't help.
There's a story about a guy who came into AMO physics from cond-mat going after a speaker really aggressively in a talk, and being pulled aside afterwards by Aspect and Cohen-Tannoudji and told "We don't do that sort of thing in this community."
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There's a story about a guy who came into AMO physics from cond-mat going after a speaker really aggressively in a talk, and being pulled aside afterwards by Aspect and Cohen-Tannoudji and told "We don't do that sort of thing in this community."
That's not a comprehensive list, just a bunch of Nobel laureates (plus two others) who I've enjoyed talking to. I could do several more such lists with slightly less well-known folks.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
That's not a comprehensive list, just a bunch of Nobel laureates (plus two others) who I've enjoyed talking to. I could do several more such lists with slightly less well-known folks.
