Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session T05: DNP Prize Session
3:30 PM–5:18 PM,
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 14
Sponsoring
Unit:
DNP
Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract: T05.00002 : A Frog's View of Physics
4:06 PM–4:42 PM
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Presenter:
Barry R Holstein
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Author:
Barry R Holstein
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
A decade ago Freeman Dyson, in the Einstein lecture delivered to the American Mathematical Society, divided mathematicians into birds, who fly high above and have a broad picture of the field, and frogs, who are confined to the mud and observe only nearby flowers. He argues that both species are necessary for a field to progress and thrive. Certainly the same categorization is true of physicists and my own physics journey has definitely been that of a frog. I review various “flowers” which have caught my attention during my career, including weak nonleptonic and semileptonic decays, CP violation, and chiral dynamics and at the end attempt a bird's eye view that ties this work together.
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