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phymath01 diffgeom01 一个矩阵的行列式就是一个平行多面体的(定向的)体积,这个多面体的每条边就对应矩阵的列。如果学生们得知了这个秘密(在纯粹的代数式的教育中,这个秘密被仔细地隐藏了起来),那么行列式的整个理论都将成为多线性形式理论的一部分。如果用别的方式来定义行列式,则任何敏感的人都将会永远恨死了诸如行列式, Jacobi式,以及隐函数定理

一个矩阵的行列式就是一个平行多面体的(定向的)体积,这个多面体的每条边就对应矩阵的列。如果学生们得知了这个秘密(在纯粹的代数式的教育中,这个秘密被仔细地隐藏了起来),那么行列式的整个理论都将成为多线性形式理论的一部分。如果用别的方式来定义行列式,则任何敏感的人都将会永远恨死了诸如行列式, Jacobi式,以及隐函数定理

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李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 13:42

物理学家是最有理由鄙视其他学科人但是却很难被其他学科的人鄙视的。(人类学除外)

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*z K u[ a j5Y [color=#0000ff]物理学家是最有理由鄙视其他学科人但是却很难被其他学科的人鄙视的。他们懂数学,所以不怕数学家鄙视,反过来可以鄙视纯粹数学家的不务实与应用数学家的琐碎。他们懂哲学,所以不怕哲学家的鄙视,反过来可以鄙视纯哲学家的夸夸其谈与科学哲学家的马后炮。很多物理学家对哲学家不屑。 e V J A S ? H Y ^ o
Einstein说Gottingen的数学家似乎只是为了显示自己的数学有多么牛,这么说来,他是相当鄙视这些数学家的。-B(_ @8u m'Y
虽然Einstein总被科学哲学爱好者认定为哲学爱好者,但是他在《相对论的意义中》(1922)就毫不掩饰地认为哲学对科学起的作用基本是有害的,就算有益,也只是让物理学家避免更加有害的哲学。4M K.G/s0V3f R
Bohr被公认为Copenhagen学派的领袖,以哲学分析见长,但是Dirac说他没有在Bohr的哲学里学到任何有益与有害的东西。倒是Heisenberg说他是从Bohr那里学哲学的,可惜他的哲学对他没有多少正面影响。
H t x ~%v-l _ o由于物理学家基本上不会说其他行业的人鄙视,所以物理学家就只能被同行鄙视鄙视。,V0F D5@4g0y m ?
Fermi非常精干聪明,被他当时的很多欧洲同行称为“聪明的量子工程师”,首先,说他聪明是对他才智的肯定,说他是量子工程师就是一种鄙视,大意是说他干的不是探究物理本质的第一性的工作,而只是干些类似于工程技术的活,谁让他搞实验这么厉害了……不过这种鄙视未必站得住脚,毕竟Fermi-Dirac统计就是一个极度漂亮的纯理论工作,鄙视他的人一定要因为文献和教科书上到处存在的Fermion而不爽。+p h%E S'a ? A E2s
Dirac非常睿智,但是当他还没有提出“反电子”而不得不纠缠于“电子海”的概念时,Landau毫不犹豫地用了“胡扯”这个词汇来表示他的鄙视之情。不过所谓的“Landau十戒”基本上就是他本人在凝聚态物理方面的工作的细分,而即使在这个领域,都有Feynman来搅局,所以Landau同志虽然傲慢但也郁闷。(B T M f P j-Y2s
Heisenberg非常牛,但是他的文章总是朦朦胧胧,所以Yang把Dirac和Heisenberg比较一番,说H兄的文章有渣滓,而D兄的文章却无渣滓,并且用“性灵出万象,风骨超常伦”来形容D兄的作品,可见这也是一个变相的鄙视了,只是鄙视的是文章风格而不是个人成就。但是H兄确实也被D兄神出鬼没的才智所困扰,以致于为了避免和D兄竞争而在一段时间内去研究磁铁。
D S1} p#v j DYang非常机敏,但是在SU(2)规范场的与质量有关问题上被Pauli穷追猛打,大受鄙视。最后解决这个问题的是Higgs机制。!i R#Z f I r z P
Schwinger就很相当鄙视Feynman图……可是……
*Z b Y9A$l(]Hawking非常卓越,但是这几十年来他的成就仅在于宣传,内行人尊重他在黑洞方面和时空几何方面的巨大贡献,但是显然对于“自Einstein以来最伟大的理论物理学家”这个大帽子极度鄙视,关是活着的物理学家中比他厉害的都多了去了,何况还有那么多死去的大师。
.|)L I @8y,_Witten无可挑剔,如果真有人要鄙视他,就只好说他是个数学家。不过相信很多数学家会说他是物理学家,Atiyah当然是例外啦。/r X+[ V P7Q ] i
如果你一辈子都在兢兢业业地研究一个学科,保持低调,应该不会有那么大的被鄙视的危险了吧?答案似乎是否定的……就记得李淼老师在他的《超弦简史》中说过,如果一个人一辈子都在一个很小的固定领域干活,那么别人就可以用这样的话来形容自己的鄙视之情:“这个人还在抛光自己的博士论文。”(我没有记清原话,大意如此。**如果见到,可否提醒一下原文),可见一个人如果研究领域几十年不变,也很容易被鄙视的……[/color]:k A6\/a-|'c `
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李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 13:45
数学是物理的一部分。物理学是一门实验科学,它是自然科学的一部分。而数学是物理学中只需要花费较少的代价进行实验的那一部分。例如 Jacobi 恒等式(保证三角形三条高交于一点)就是一个实验事实,正如同地球是圆的(即同胚于球体)这样的事实一样。但是发现前者却要比发现后者需要较少的代价。
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在20世纪中叶,人们试图严格地区分物理与数学。其造成地后果是灾难性的。整整一代的数学家在对他们所从事的科学的另一半及其无知的情况下成长,当然,对其他的科学就更无知了。这些人又开始把他们的丑陋的学院式的伪数学教给他们的学生,接着这些丑陋的伪数学又被交给中小学校里的孩子们(他们完全忘记了 Hardy的警告:丑陋的数学在阳光下不可能总有藏身之处)。 J b B @ s"^.} E2H h

[D2T [ j u ^.Q既然那些从物理学中人为挖出来的学院式的数学既无益于教学,又对其他的科学毫无用处,结果可以想见,全世界的人都讨厌数学家(甚至包括那些被他们教出来的可怜的学校里的孩子们以及那些运用这些丑陋数学的人)。这些先天不足的数学家被他们所患的低能症候群折腾的筋疲力尽,他们无能对物理学有个起码的了解。令人们记忆犹新的由他们建造的一个丑陋建筑物就是“奇数的严格公理化理论”。7y4T-l%_8N D3e x H

(i x e P!U8j Y很显然,完全可能创造这样一种理论,使得幼稚的小学生们敬畏它的完美及其内部构造的和谐(例如,这种理论定义了奇数个项的和以及任意个因子的乘积)。从这种偏执狭隘的观点来看,偶数或者被认为是一类“异端”,或者随着时间流逝,被用来作为该理论中几个“理想”对象的补充(为了遵从物理与真实世界的需要)。很不幸的是,这种理论只是数学中一个丑陋而变态的构造,但却统治了我们的数学教育数十年。它首先源自于法国,这股歪风很快传播到对数学基础的教学里,先是毒害大学生,接着中小学生也难免此灾(而灾区最先是法国,接着是其他国家,包括俄罗斯)。 H I)M2q8Q,K3~ G7t8y6l

2U j f(o f如果你问一个法国的小学生:“2+3等于几?”,他(她)会这样回答:“等于3+2,因为加法运算是可交换的”。他(她)根本不知道这个和等于几,甚至根本不能理解你在问他(她)什么!
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L { H ?+O+R d D z-L还有的法国小学生会这样定义数学(至少我认为很有可能):“存在一个正方形,但还没有被证明”。 \ ] ['o7Z
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据我在法国教学的经验,大学里的学生对数学的认识与这些小学生也差不多(甚至包括那些在’高等师范学校’(ENS)里学习数学的学生--我为这些显然很聪明但却被毒害颇深的孩子们感到极度的惋惜)。
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#E J.H j |;V6b例如,这些学生从未见过一个抛物面,而且一个这样的问题:描述由方程所给出的曲面的形状,就能使那些在ENS中研究的数学家们发呆半天;而 如下问题:画出平面上由参数方程(例如, )给出的曲线,对学生来说是不可能完成的(甚至对大多数法国的数学教授也一样)。从微积分的入门教科书直到Goursat写的课本,解这些问题的能力都被认为是每个数学家应具备的基本技能。 H7i2_5B%|+J M
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那些喜欢挑战大脑的所谓“抽象数学”的狂热者们,把所有在数学中能与物理和现实经常 发生联系的几何统统排除在教学之外。由Goursat, Hermite, Picard等人写的微积分教程被认为是有害的,最近差点被巴黎第6和第7大学的图书馆当垃圾丢掉,只是在我的干预下才得以保存。 P.F u%a T ^ T#Z6U

O.v \ y1[0kENS 的听完所有微分几何与代数几何课程的学生(分别被不同的数学家教的),却既不熟悉由椭圆曲线 决定的黎曼曲面,也不知道曲面的拓扑分类(更别提第一类椭圆积分和椭圆曲线的群性质了,即 Euler-Abel 加法定理)。他们仅仅学到了Hodge 构造以及 Jacobi 簇! H |6h/{ i a E9p B
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这样的现象竟然会在法国出现!这个国家可是为整个世界贡献 了诸如 Lagrange ,Laplace, Cauchy 以及 Poincaré, Leray 还有 Thom 这些顶级的伟大人物啊!对我而言,一个合理的解释来自 I.G. Petrovskii, 他在1966年曾教导过我:真正的数学家决不会拉帮结派,只有弱者为了生存才会加入帮派。他们可以联结很多的方面(可能会是超级的抽象,反犹太主义或者 “应用的和工业上的”问题),但其本质总是为了解决社会生存问题。 我在此向大家顺便提一下 L. Pasteur 的忠告:从来没有也决不会有任何所谓的“应用科学”,而仅仅有的是科学的应用(十分有用的东东啊!) P B a R0B v d U7M4Z/} v

8H7j X&O0x @*f&T/D长久以来我一直对 Petrovskii 的话心存疑虑,但是现今我越来越肯定他说的一点没错。那些超级抽象活动的相当大的部分正在堕落到以工业化的模式无耻的掠夺那些发现者的成果,然后再加以系统地组织设计使自己成为万能的推广者。就彷佛美丽坚所在的新大陆不以哥伦布命名一样,数学结果也几乎从未以它们真正的发现者来命名。
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J+X3O!c/G为避免被认为我在胡说八道,我不得不在此声明我自己的一些成果由于莫名其妙的原因就被以上述方式无偿征用,其实这样的事情经常在我的老师(Kolmogorov, Petrovskii, Pontryagin, Rokhlin)和学生身上发生。0`6]([;C#k S9b H

D v*W B h B DM. Berry 教授曾经提出过如下两个原理:
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Arnold 原理:如果某个理念中出现了某个人名,则这个人名必非发现此理念者的名字。 F B P ~ J$l
Berry 原理:Arnold 原理适用于自身。
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不过,我们还是说回法国的数学教育上来。当我还是莫斯科大学数力系的一年级新生时,集合论的拓扑学家 L.A. Tumarkin 教我们微积分,他在课堂上很谨慎地一遍又一遍地讲述古老而经典的Goursat 版的法语微积分教程。他告诉我们有理函数沿着一条代数曲线的积分可以求出来如果该代数曲线对应的黎曼面是一个球面。而一般来说,如果该曲面的亏格更高这样的积分将不可求,不过对球面而言,只要在一个给定度数的曲线上有充分多的double points 就足够了(即要求该曲线是unicursal :即可以将其实点在射影平面上一笔画出来)。
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Y s F j E这些事实给我们造成多么深刻的印象啊(即使没有给出证明),它们给了我们非常优美而正确的现代数学的思想,比那些长篇累牍的Bourbaki学派的论著不知道好到哪里去了。说真的,我们在这里看到了那些表面上完全不同的事物之间存在着令人惊奇的联系:一方面,对于相应的黎曼面上的积分与拓扑存在着显式的表达式,而另一方面,在 double points 的个数与相应的黎曼面的亏格之间也有重要的联系。 P*j R+l L j8M

_ D n X }#Q U这样的例子并不鲜见,作为数学中最迷人的性质之一,Jacobi曾指出:用同一个函数就既可以理解能表示为4个数平方和的整数的性质,又可以描述一个单摆的运动。这些不同种类的数学对象之间联系的发现,就好比在物理学中电与磁之间联系的发现,也类同于地质学上对美洲大陆的东海岸与非洲大陆的西海岸之间相似性的发现。
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D%W5Z b%G'y然而,数学教育的非几何化以及与物理学的分离却割断了这种联系。例如,不仅仅学习数学的学生而且绝大部分的代数几何学家都对以下提及的Jacobi 事实一无所知:一个第一类型的椭圆积分表示了相应的哈密顿系统中沿某个椭圆相曲线的运动所走的时间。$]!U T6X A5W l J [ x
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我们知道一个 hypocycloid 就如同多项式环中的理想一样是无穷无尽的。但是如果要把理想这个概念教给一个从未见过任何 hypocycloid 的学生,就好比把分数的加法教给一个从来没有把蛋糕或苹果等分切割过(至少在脑子里切过)的学生。毫无疑问孩子们将会倾向于同时分子加分子分母加分母。
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从我的法国朋友那里我听说这种超级抽象的一般化正是他们国家的传统特色。如果说这可能是一个世袭的缺陷,我倒不会不赞成,不过我还是愿意强调那个从Poincaré 那儿借来的“蛋糕与苹果”的事实。
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构造数学理论的方式与其它的自然科学并没有什么不同。首先,我们要考虑一些对象并对一些特殊的事例进行观察。接着我们试图要找到一些我们所观察到的结果在应用上的限制,即寻找那些防止我们不正确地把我们所观察的结果扩展到更广泛领域的反例。作为一个结果我们尽可能地明确提出那由经验得来的发现(如费马猜想和庞加莱猜想)。这之后将是检验我们的结论到底有多可靠的困难的阶段。1| n"F:@ l/G

!e F R { c*o"G ^7Z就这一点来说,数学界已经发展出了一套特别的技术。这种技术,当被运用于现实世界时,有时候很有用,但有时候也会导致自欺欺人。这样的技术被称为“建模”。当构造一个模型时,要进行如下的理想化:某些只能以一定概率或一定的精确性了解的事实,往往被认为是“绝对”正确的并被当作“公理”来接受。这种“绝对性”的意义恰恰是,在把所有我们可以借助这些事实得出的结论称为定理的过程中,我们允许自己依据形式逻辑的规则来运用这些“事实”。显然在任何现实的日常生活中,我们的活动要完全依赖于这样的化减是不可能的。原因至少在于所研究的现象的参数决不可能被绝对准确的知晓,并且参数的微小变化(例如一个过程初始条件的微小改变)就会完全地改变结果。由于这个原因我们可以说任何长期的天气预报都是不可能的,无论我们把计算机造的有多高级或是记录初始条件地仪器有多灵敏,这永远也办不到。 z4x1p t@6R0r O-K

,d x h$N H:H与此完全一样的是,公理(那些我们不能完全确定的)的一个小小的改变虽是容许的,一般来说,由那些被接受的公理推出的定理却将导出完全不同的结论。推导的链(即所谓的“证明”)越长越复杂,最后得到的结论可靠性越低。复杂的模型几乎毫无用处(除了对那些无聊的专写论文的人)。
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#B @ \ c:K C.U7@ h数学建模的技术对这种麻烦一无所知,并且还不断地吹嘘他们得到的模型,似乎它们真的就与现实世界吻合。事实上,从自然科学的观点看, 这种途径是显然不正确的,但却经常导致很多物理上有用的被称为“有不可思议的有效性的数学”结果(或叫做“Wigner原理”)。
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$Q1i P,Y } B我在此再提一下盖尔方德先生的一句话:还有另一类现象与以上Wigner所指的物理中的数学具有相仿的不可思议的有效性,即生物学中用到的数学也是同样令人难以置信的有效。
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Y7]8B*| s k o A v对一个物理学家而言,“数学教育所致的不易察觉的毒害作用”(F.Klein 原话)恰恰体现在由现实世界抽离出的被绝对化了的模型,并且它与现实已不再相符。这儿是一个简单的例子:数学知识告诉我们 Malthus 方程 的解是由初始条件唯一决定的(也即相应的位于(t-x)-平面上积分曲线彼此不交)。这个数学模型的结论显得与现实世界毫不相关。而计算机模拟却显示所有这些积分曲线在t的负半轴上有公共点。事实上,具有初始条件 x(0) = 0 和 x(0) = 1的曲线在t=-100 相交,其实在t=-100 时,你压根就不可能在两条曲线之间再插入一个原子。欧式几何对这种空间在微小距离下的性质没有任何的描述。在这种情况下来应用唯一性定理显然已经超出了模型所能容许的精确程度。在对模型的实际运用中,这种情形必须要加以注意,否则可能会导致严重的麻烦。.a!J*w1T M Y S

6c ?5q-H E#Y"u N z Z2C我还想说的是,相同的唯一性定理也可解释为何在船只停泊码头前的靠岸阶段必须得依靠人工操作:否则的话,如果行进的速度是距离的光滑(线性)函数,则整个靠岸的过程将会耗费无穷长的时间。而另外可行的方法则是与码头相撞(当然船与码头之间要有非理想弹性物体以造成缓冲)。顺便说一下,我们必须非常重视这类问题,例如,登陆月球和火星以及空间站的对接-此时唯一性问题都会让我们头痛。 b r A B n

-[ e4[ O i c:`*u不幸的是,在现代数学的教科书里,即使是较好的一类课本里,对这种令人崇拜的定理所隐藏的危险的事例或探讨都只字没有。我甚至已经形成了这样的印象,那些学院派的数学家(对物理知识都一窍不通)都对公理化形式的数学与建模的主要差异习以为常,而且他们觉得在自然科学中这是很普遍的,只是需要用后期的实验来控制理论推演。
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k%} V e+r而所谓“抽象的”光滑流形就是欧式空间的允许相差一个微分同胚意义下的光滑子流形。世界上根本不存在所谓“更抽象的”有限维的光滑流形(Whitney 定理)。为什么我们总是要用抽象的定义来折磨学生们呢?把闭二维流形(曲面)的分类定理证给学生们看不是更好吗?恰恰是这样的精彩定理(即任何紧的连通的可定向的曲面都是一个球面外加若干个环柄似的把手)使我们对现代数学是什么有了一个正确的印象,相反的是,那些对欧式空间的简单的子流形所做的超级抽象的推广,事实上压根没有给出任何新的东东,不过是用来展示一下那些公理化学者们成就的蹩脚货。
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对曲面的分类定理是顶级的数学成就, 堪与美洲大陆或X射线的发现媲美。这是数学科学里一个真正的发现,我们甚至难以说清到底所发现的这个事实本身对物理学和数学哪一个的贡献更大。它对应用以及对发展正确的世界观的非凡意义目前已超越了数学中的其他的“成就”,诸如对费马大定理的证明,以及对任何充分大的整数都能表示成三个素数和这类事实的证明。为了出风头,当代的数学家有时候总要展示一些“运动会式的”成就,并声称那就是他们的学科里最后的难题。可想而知,这样的做法不仅无助于社会对数学的欣赏,而且恰恰相反,会使人们产生怀疑:对于这样的毫无用处的跳脱衣舞般的问题,有必要耗费能量来做这些(彷佛攀岩似的)练习吗?曲面的分类定理应该被包含在高中数学的课程里(可以不用证明),但不知为什么就连大学数学的课程里也找不到(顺便一下,在法国近几十年来说有的几何课程都被禁止)。9H [ l%F,S d u h
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z+s m ~ M+n我清晰地记得在学校 时,Hermite 写的微积分教程(有俄语译本)给我留下了多么强烈的印象。我记得在其最开始的一篇讲义中就出现了黎曼曲面(当然所有分析的内容都是针对复变量的,也本该如此)。而积分渐进的内容是通过黎曼曲面上道路形变的方法来研究(如今,我们称此方法为Picard-Lefschetz 理论;顺便提一下,Picard是Hermite的女婿--数学能力往往是由女婿来传承:Hadamard - P. Levy - L. Schwarz - U. Frisch 这个王朝就是巴黎科学院中另一个这样的范例)。
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一个数学教师,如果至今还没有掌握至少几卷Landau 和 Lifsh*tz 著的物理学教程,他(她)必将成为一个数学界的希罕的残存者,就好似如今一个仍不知道开集与闭集差别的人。(The end)
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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics.
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R/X I&d Q J rThe fact is that there are few more "popular" subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances may suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. 1N)L p0Z F
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  遵守诺言,可是宴会开到一半,几乎所有的人都知道feymann是nobel了
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] j D G }+P:A ~ c  他朋友很郁闷,找了个人一问,原来是feymann自己到处说的 I!O u6X X y
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  典型的甲方乙方徐帆表演的那个明星的现场版
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  标 题: 物理八卦---4
s E c7i#e-~  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:03:24 2003), 转信 4H:c9~/^:F ?.i5r \
   2k d \1F A S4x
  关键是feymann虽然的确不错,但是他自己吹再加上别人帮着吹,吹着吹着就真的 @5H D \ T,]4F j m
  让人受不了了 N$V/t ~ ? `*O
  
;w ?8| v _ Z  比如那个所谓的拒领nobel奖 )Ip3O!E*a i B0Q'D/~:p+l&_ Y
  
-P a A1C#l `I(\  而且这个家伙明显的大嘴巴,作演讲不管对的错的一块儿来
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m q W0p S:h  他教学生算是nobel奖里面比较差得了(不知道算不算最差的),大概学生中的牛人 /N'\ y;s'] M F ` V V
  我知道的就一个bjoken
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  标 题: 物理八卦---5
X U)S%] Z h x L |  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:03:46 2003), 转信
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.n8X X#M4w R ?  说一下schwinger ;S"X2C f f r0}
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  这个人是大大牛,属于早慧那种,据说他十五岁的时候混得不好,在纽约一个什么社区 &d0Q'W(j d%s4i
  大学混日子,但是有一天偶尔RABI和另一个牛牛在谈论一个量子电动力学的问题,这 c h7V o,V
  时候schwinger插进来,"这个少年尖锐的发言结束了这场争论",rabi爱才,特意托关系
-G @ J Y ^1a1r x N*i#` D  把他招进的columbia,从此schwinger一帆风顺。。。。
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8n2y B9i*C*L  schwinger大概对数学特别有偏好,做的文章很难看得懂,据说是在他做自己的第一次 m%_ { e |(U
  场论报告的时候,除了bohr在那里点头同意,剩下的人根本不知道他在那里说什么,
P P N n G t$P  但是既然波尔点了头,大家就认为对了,紧接着feymann上去,也讲场论,讲自己的那 G b p j R&i
  套,这下更糟,连bohr在内,没一个听懂的,bohr据说说了一句特尖刻的话"你应该重
T)c b @ m0['q G%j  学量子力学" /B7K T d B E
  据feynman后来承认,他当时的理论并不完善,估计被如此尖刻的批评也是难免的
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c#p F%^ j  标 题: 物理八卦---6 k(u m&qx,^6z
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:04:25 2003), 转信
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| v(u d q  其实当时feymann得理论还是有人听懂了,一个是bethe,是他的同事,不断被他毒害 #y H W(w s [ y
  不懂也差不多了,另一个fermi,fermi以前从来没听过这个idea,但是fermi一下子就抓
s q&Q w ww  住了本质
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(k D,q w o B8B v D"[*N M  大牛啊 5}*F |X m @
   ;M s I } e7O/j
  feymann最郁闷的事情莫过于,在物理上,比他聪明的同时代人有个schwinger,这位是
1G,m O ~ J7e \ o)S  真的比他聪明,而且功力深厚,无论feymann怎么追,也追不上啊 M K}7] W B4~
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+i L B"b4^ k B  一段feynman写给**信 B'W q!h!S"V4l1w
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  "I thought you would be happy that I beat schwinger out at last,but
"] n9v5B Q Q B v  it turns out he got the things 3 years ago,of course he only got 1/2
O9C;i&J&Z i k p  medal , so I guess you'll be happy,you always compare me with Schwinger"
d W v W { n;` |;q   [ w9]#Z(w N
  当然实际上schwinger他们三个平分的奖金,每人1/3 v H X b C V
  
u t r ?^ b R$m  标 题: 物理八卦---7
.p k X7a8i V,k  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:04:57 2003), 转信
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  fermi真的是可以跟爱因斯坦,bohr比肩的大师,非但目光锐利,善于抓住主要问题
*e3l \/[+`.r I  而且思维敏捷,实验理论都是第一流大牛,还会教学生,作为一个物理学家,简直是
(_ b-U K ` i c(` Q @  完美 c#^ K-x f } \ P M s/^
   k,G f$J!i z
  我认为是最好的物理学家之一
,k v5`8x(R W q [   7[ O N6J T
  关于场论,刚开始大家特别糊涂,自己算出来的是什么东西都不知道,只知道算 .^ U!l8n(['W T
  然后feimi发了一片文章,结束了混乱。
R d y!`P  
X*_ d:h9[ G Y(O v  另外说一句
O!~v+x%R y  
q @ c k.l1b p1Y  杨振宁的博士导师不是fermi,他导师是Tellor,feimi的嫡传理论弟子是李政道
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  标 题: 物理八卦---8
.P E Q ~ h c  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:05:23 2003), 转信
;n$A u0u*z h  
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#b0Q1K q \ oP h  杨振宁说的,现代数学的书可以分成两种,一种是看了一页看不下去的,另一种是看了一行看不下去的。
$q+H9I9D9G3f2y$C:m   B2} sj U R#j P-x
  数学家想打人请便
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'X G C+| M b Y  标 题: 物理八卦---9
O N)e I#c l S.g7F  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:05:44 2003), 转信 :E-N i { k
  
!^1o m2I%j5n t  科学家的人品问题,一直是一个忌讳的话题
0Y2u!T;_ y7w+k J   c;r U _ W Q Z'L9l @
  据说丁肇中闹的最郁闷的一件事情大概是他怀疑自己组内有内奸,结果导致slac m m o Y U S&R-[
  的人关于j/\psi结果跟他一起发表,他认为是组内有人向slac透露了细节, Y8c9o P!_6T;g0j
  这件事情闹的极其不愉快,丁肇中后来一直在cern混不知道有没有这个原因 [ X K q h B r8{
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  标 题: 物理八卦---10
7c o _ W(E  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:06:46 2003), 转信 s-} b d T4g T `
   ;{ G0N F;P%V H |&j V'B
  吴健雄的事情也是得罪了合作者,当年宇称不守恒实验肯定能获诺贝尔奖的,
C G ~!c9U w { v3_  结果没有获得,这个是个很大的原因。
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s e v(G5\ Q Y7l F5e W  吴不懂低温,是跟标准局的几位低温大牛合作的,实验结果出 6O ?)W#o k"e
  来以后,吴一个人写的文章,好像因此得罪了那几位。。。 2q \ u j"E e.D
   #M+A ? H5u+V%f
  吴健雄写文章压根没通知那三个,开会的时候别人都以为要讨论文章怎么写 &s _-C Z | ~8_ R ^
  结果吴健雄已经把文章拿出来让他们表态了
c e$r.l4^ _  
7{ ` d4w [ N5C2K  据说谈到排名的时候,吴叹了一口气,然后就.....排名第一了 L k.ol$\
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  标 题: 物理八卦---11 y7O i G S o U e2N5H
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:07:05 2003), 转信 5? y l7_!p;a J
  
]+k N r B:n [ T I6h e  大家现在都知道李杨闹翻了,其实何止他们一对儿闹翻了
o n%n v8_ b R1J  
Q)s T+~ _| u U  weinberg 和格拉肖,两人高中同学,大学在cornell同学,同在哈佛
d2` w3v!~ j  做教授,同时拿nobel物理奖,闹翻了
y"o ` S,f |0x   d3~ B M.^)n2Q-^
  t'hooft and veltman,师生关系,闹翻了
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  veltman个人感觉不是很牛,但是几个学生都是大牛,奇怪
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"V&V n8\]#h%|1W f  标 题: 物理八卦---12 l;X s k8|8|
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:07:30 2003), 转信
+S R\ F I7p5P N   k9S | c!C4O E
  有些人的工作是由于数理功底扎实,水到渠成,他们从事的问题别人同样去做也可能成功
%n;s o l8e  但是海森堡的研究就非常奇怪,比如他不会严格计算湍流,但是猜出了两块平板间的湍流 s O i |:p"N
  解,最后 这个解被林家翘严格证明了,诺伊曼作数值计算也发现他是对的
` x2i Q)p  
{;F w M.L.} j&]5h _  量子力学的创立也是如此,谁也没想到他能够一开始就完全放弃轨道等经典概念,只从可 T V l O4K w ] {7b
  观测量出发建立量子力学
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9s:p b!B&k0l  戈德史密特作过氦光谱的问题,他想用轨道自旋耦合解释,费尽力气也没找到答案,然后海森堡开始做,他从一 y f w b/G X v b G
  开始就意识到这可能与反对称波函数有关,结果作出了答案,这好像是反对称波函数的 '_W5z T,[,k6U9y.b#R
  第一次应用 #_*Z e j(B ~8@ B
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  标 题: 物理八卦---13 Q O%V2b C+u
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:07:52 2003), 转信 F$f8a%s;]9L%l
   j C&? W,F D f;Q
  说道轨道自旋耦合,还有一个fermi的故事,Mayer,就是那个女物理学家,大牛 `(}2r J ?([ u-f&w f
  企图解释原子核的壳层模型,怎么都不成功,去问fermi,fermi问了一句,你考虑过自旋轨道耦合 ;k0B'W Z C3y ]
  没有?
0A S+y F O  于是她就成功了 "D a8} I C g:U P2V-W ]
  ft fermi,一句话就能这么牛
y i f ] A X  mayer是结婚了的,呵呵,以前写错了
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  标 题: 物理八卦---14
d m f-P F p)}3i  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:08:22 2003), 转信
D$p9i0} j C   5p'd4Z&e ` w2C
  说道自旋,讲讲自旋的故事 q P G G S B X w
  
T%F c:V n  戈德史密特和另一个老大乌伦贝克当研究生的时候发了电子自旋的paper,他们拿给lorentz看,结果lorentz
$q'h ? _1^ O ?  当时就指出,这样电子表面速度大于光速,违反相对论,不可能 x _ Q p | }%T F
  
u ~ p a k7J T  这两个人郁闷阿,赶紧去找自己的老板厄轮菲斯特,(爱因斯坦的好友,自杀了),结果老板告诉他们,文章submit了 6r M [ U Y+o G O
  还安慰他们,没关系,年轻人难免犯错
r5t/z8| v X }  
Q N J!C _ i @  然后这两个幸运的家伙就因为这个错误发了一片可以说重要无比的文章 b+]'J t'@6}$? e n
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  标 题: 物理八卦---15 5n,}!N(t e#G
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:08:44 2003), 转信
` ? @ I ] }(a.\ S H   &u*B)a8W m j
  再说一个倒霉蛋,也跟电子自旋有关 *X g [1` L$\,h c
   %^0c P;E [)v-m
  kronig,最早提出电子自旋的概念,可是拿着论文去找pauli,被骂了一顿,因为pauli指出计算不符合相对论#d f(B H"y2K.n(z
  于是他没敢发文章,对比下面两位,悲惨阿 A8l f @"F p T*[ w2U S R
  
9J(](q A/U n)] W6h G P  标 题: 物理八卦---16
M#| w)`/G+d-`  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:09:03 2003), 转信 3z+_/C2|,G;E P$^
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` e e G4Du N%m q Y A  戈德史密特和乌伦贝克两个人很郁闷,电子自旋这么重要,却没得nobel 4j4D*{5N#Y r-[ M
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  这还不是最郁闷的
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  最郁闷的是nobel委员会和大众总觉得他们得过了,没想着再补发
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  标 题: 物理八卦---17 M c.A I H:a q k
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:09:37 2003), 转信
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8A,}$c1N x |7E  pauli的刻薄在圈内无人能敌
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O/p2z!k R6@  海森堡得了nobel奖以后经常还被他骂的狗血喷头
a1j b | O B ^   )s5T-e g p*u o v c t u
  不过pauli一生最遗憾,他是那个时代公认最聪明的物理学家,却没有做一个划时代的发现 J w x f2r c F
   /p2p Y En1m
  他一生喜欢评论别人的东西,经常是一针见血,不过很可惜,他一生反对错了最重要的
,^5s j l \9c&G8e S w u  两件事情,一个电子自旋,一个宇称不守恒 G!M s)M `,v0Y ~ } B G
   } O c ` J W-B(X
  可能一个人过于敏锐了,对于一些违反常规的想法有一种本能的抵制 #` Q S I z#p$F k;L*g
  
+n%b X+?5c#@;o j  标 题: 物理八卦---18
S H [ \ Q \ R @  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:10:03 2003), 转信
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@ D!}0k"\4Z  当博士当的最郁闷的莫过于海森堡
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t K s _ g t1A/o }  做实验答辩,结果委员会中有老师对他不满,差点没让毕业 P4O.U(x ^&A n @ l M
  
o eI C;p5W k S  坐理论,老板索菲/莫,给了个做不出来的题目,湍流,差点不能完成任务 &A'p ^0r G D"S
  
Y EC y L's f ? j  不过超人毕竟是超人,他在不知道怎么计算精确解的情况下,猜了一个近似解,毕业了 y }%d L z%V
  
A ^ u k2G G3~ l g3V  最后那个结果也被证明是正确的 )U9A!B+? n b;A/I
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  索莫菲曾经安慰海森堡说,以后我不会给学生这么难得题目了,:D:D o/t9P8[pK
  
"@0v4n&x D6E  标 题: 物理八卦---19
(Q ` F C Y i y  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 1 14:10:32 2003), 转信
;v)@ i r:V U   8{ ]:s/Q b7B y5g/D N e
  说起来电子,想起了电子荷质比的测定,密里根油滴试验 0J ?;M q F8G J Z W
   r A W W R9X4?:c
  现在都知道密里根的这个nobel是骗来的了 8p x*O ]*F r#d8z
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  所以物理系曾经伪造数据的同学不必内疚,万一你给中国骗个nobel呢
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"U C4|(U x d E(~   {!k3k6] _ ]
  Miligen must have modified the data
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  cause a constant he used is not correct at that time, he can not \ A;j _ q"t r
  get the right answer with it
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  the constant should be the one in stokes equation %W p S v x Z ~ C
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  标 题: 物理八卦---20
'E T.p&e3w-X P!S \+n  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 07:45:24 2003), 转信
E;X | l C ]'Pg _ G V0l   !y F ?7U F.N3n
  其实nobel奖中很多人不会带学生 z F4r8b V
  
)X%Q1O b E;U/{-D  前面说过feymann是一个,爱因斯坦更是典型,好像一个好学生都没有, &w+w3G0q7t%l3X X Q*h
  
9{ d+c2u ?5V)E y P%@  feymann自己也承认不是个好老师,因为他一见到问题就想自己做出来 K T%F#[-R+z y
   e F T a.a q$k J
  爱因斯坦呢? 好像他习惯自己孤独的行走
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%R m L [(U(f V6w B  也许是因为他也知道自己的方向太难,而且当时太偏,不愿意耽误学生
)M8J0L ^/E  
V q M z ~'O m d  pauli有什么好学生吗? 海森堡? dirac? B4~,r ty K qn W
  
-I u;y E-E!Q B E O%@  好像都没有 i*A B A&u b$F
  
*c)y d h B ^-T.V.n0w2p  dirac是个典型,讲课只顾自己,别人说没听懂,他就照刚才讲的原样重复
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  pauli ?
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y3o Q E.\-x  估计是对学生太凶了,曾经批评学生的论文, "连错误都算不上"
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  标 题: 物理八卦---21 !Q m L X x ^
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 07:46:06 2003), 转信 R D q A#l1p:J,d a e
  
+J ](b Q ? }   v { h5E t0R#R
  不过pauli有一点比较好 5s3G8c c)N x
   $i d o s6E
  他对每个人都很刻薄,不会因人而异 oy S3U1a _1y,T
  
R B Lt0M j1g  有次老爱作报告,做完了,pauli起立来了句,"看来爱因斯坦不是很蠢" Z:Q5u M/M D
  
4u \ a4S,E%X u  标 题: 物理八卦---22 P1?9D K&z
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 07:46:25 2003), 转信
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  pauli大概天生不适合作实验 P` { a n E
  
3S z e E,|1R1R H  据说他出现在哪里,那里的实验室仪器就会有故障
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  有次,某个老大的实验室仪器突然失灵(忘了是谁了)。他们就开玩笑说,今儿pauli没来这地方啊
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B2Z } T ^ u i!|T j+Y  后来过了不久,pauli告诉他们,那天他乘坐的火车在那个时刻在他们的城市短暂停留了一下 4j w4f _7q J.~ @
  
;C!?+@ [ f7B0o  标 题: 物理八卦---23 0P jf d t \;mf
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m u!c ?:C H  杨振宁也是个例子 K \+a } x y k4f
  
g9T-h O j#s  据说在实验室是不受欢迎的人
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  因为他走到哪里,仪器就坏到哪里
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  标 题: 物理八卦---24 t t8d W/J'[*C d
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 07:47:24 2003), 转信 8B z1R'i#j
  
g t s8F)W0[+L;E8?   _ V)U u9C k v4{ q H
  讲到实验物理,大家都知道运气是很重要的,往往只有一次机会 c U(?"F i0c Z2n _ m
   x,J,o&q d p [#Z1K ] b @
  不过有的人运气着实不错,连着两次错过nobel奖,居然还能有第三次
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  约里奥·居里夫妇——居里夫人的女儿和女婿发现了新的中性射线,却没有意识到是
K#N.L-U$S C#a v  中子, 结果这个nobel奖被查德威克得了
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g%v3? V j!\*{+Q4d  第二次,他们发现了正电子的轨迹,不幸,又忽略了,于是nobel被安德森得了 ? `$K T \ n u
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  最后一次,估计上帝他老人家已经愤怒了,给了个特别明显的,根本不能忽略的现象, J r+Y L V&V"s,|
  稳定的 人工放射性
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5F8` h R(N9x1u6u V;r m*Y  这两人这次总算没忽略,拿了个nobel
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;D)j6A y/l g _ _  上帝他老人家也够郁闷的,给居里家的人送礼都得送三次
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  标 题: 物理八卦---25 0s C-n J L
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 08:05:49 2003), 转信
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  冯。诺伊曼的聪明是出了名的
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3X f i v e4L$b  据说有一次,wigner有个问题想了一个月,没想明白。正好诺伊曼喜欢在
;L V d L f G A2r%H  研究院到处串门 这天跑到wigner那里去,wigner就跟他诉苦,诺伊曼问了一遍问题,
E:J S V8P I V  然后就开始站在窗户那里对着外面 发呆
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] |)M @ ? Gr.G%n B ? E  过了半个小时,他给了wigner答案 {.P0H f4c h
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  我估计再有自信的人碰到这种人都会被郁闷死的 h l o0X g
  
x k(T \ x i j I  我问了我老师,他说wigner也没告诉他具体题目是什么,但他知道
.b2[ X a Z!Y u3S x)u'[  是一个根群论有关的问题,而这方面诺依曼是大牛 a H z A _ _
  
8|8n T6?1P {.Q F K @ r i  他给我回信的原文是 A G5w @ l6` `
  
Q t.c8R a  Wigner never told me the specific problem; however, it was one -@ ^5`7_ c2Q ^)i:N I&X
  involving some deep group theory in which von Neumann was a master.
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j a }7q&s t j F  标 题: 物理八卦---26 "M;` Q0R g
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 08:06:53 2003), 转信
_!b `-\#{ `'},`.o   /z"e k i8G V C s
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  不过princeton高等研究院的诸位同仁比较有阿Q精神
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  他们是这么说的,:“你看,琼尼的确不是凡人,但在同人们长期共同生活之 Z0N Z a k't7v
  后,他也学会了怎样出色地去模仿世人。”
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5W-j f S"g  恩,这个自我安慰的确不错 )k Q d n/u m-P7o
  
'z#a/c N U [4N  btw: 琼尼就是诺伊曼 'l s%F7c }!L*W M
  
1H-K:I X O h c ?  标 题: 物理八卦---27 (P a,u L(E+] L&n m U
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 08:27:45 2003), 转信
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(d9V9x v)v  R.P.Feynman: "Physics is like sex: I P i Y8x$G$z
   sure, it may give some practical results, ] c W g B
   but that's not why we do it."
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&B W6X,F m U Y  feynman说的这句话 damn right
a)z;N!O5U6` p9l  
2u a1Y F+m#n K0I  哈哈
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  标 题: 物理八卦---28
7D r"t3T6N  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 08:31:37 2003), 转信 8I/\ F `/r ^9b ~
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  pauling的德语
)\ T y z w  pauling的德语到底有多差,我们不知道 J"V S*V i5Z H m I
  不过有次他做了一个很好的文章,然后用德语写了份报告,给了索莫菲。
d%LP ~'c | S:E1~  索莫菲顺手扔到一边,让他用英文重写,叫另一个学生翻译成德文,然后 c B M O h%G l
  发表了
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  标 题: 物理八卦---29 V J A |4e b%@ W3_
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Jul 2 12:58:04 2003), 转信 a2} K n9i ^1g4KC
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,N ^ ?9J5^ o  不知道应不应该强调,一个人的学术水平与他的人品不相关
k G ^,q G d8P%z  
? @ I&M J:x U  看三个nobel的例子
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3^7?$E i Y  P.Lenard.1905年nobel,攻击爱因斯坦个人及其理论,手段恶劣
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-G m%x6] w ] P  哈恩,1944化学奖 不过做的是物理,重核**,可惜绝口不提合作者
0t U W V)p y G h  梅特纳,甚至虽然主要工作是梅特纳做的
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  添加一个stark,就是那个斯塔克效应,1919的nobel
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  这三个都跟纳粹关系不浅,其中lenard是希特勒的铁杆拥护者 p K4Y u3?8B#n W
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  要算上其他学科的,那人品不端的就更多le 3C8M6e'N+u A
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  活着的我们就不说了,等没人跟我们打官司了再说
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h L L @ R  标 题: 物理八卦---30
)X"m p9W m)s#e o+r a  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 4 11:57:42 2003), 转信
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  关于民科
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4S.w a @ _ k(d  这个问题比较敏感哈,属于打击对象哈 r0| e7g&u M
  
x$I+W k U  neemann是以色列的外交武官,不过业余喜欢物理,他好像有一段闲着无聊,
G2i X)C \ W  然后问一个物理学家有什么可做的,然后那位告诉他说,基本粒子的分类 m \ [ M$r }*L D K
  是个有趣的问题 `-G r6g ^
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  然后他去做了,得出了跟盖尔曼一样的八重态方法,不同的是,他没得nobel奖 $G$` W a \ v0x
  
q I F t])Q ^  今天讲这个故事,我要说的是,我宁可错杀一千个民科,也不愿意垂首读一篇 2c {,]6f)? H3w
  民科的文章
U%G f*k.n#o&J [  
"mI'v)T S$y ? O a  不要拿我说的这个做例子反对我,因为neemann毕竟是受过正规科学训练的
^,X S%w i _ J P:{)s  他的研究也是专业人士指导的
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  标 题: 物理八卦---31
F#y Z*U([ ~ M  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 4 12:03:53 2003), 转信
,Z)P7u!l$H n W+z   s(C R f8k"g1A0Y z
  讲讲夸克发现的历史
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  现在一提夸克,大家都知道是盖尔曼
v Z6`9~/q;@ E u  
B:R5{+Hz r9L p  其实夸克最早叫ace,是兹维格起的名字
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G x C R v e I g  兹维格比盖尔曼要早发明夸克理论,发展的也完整的多,写了特别详细的一片大文章 \ i j4h `+y L'U
  基本上除了动力学,方方面面都涉及到了 N/b(X"c4^ O [
  
u x2O;m3_ V1D z G q  可惜四处投稿悲剧,因为太超前了 3u s e5N f W d d F
  
^3K d:R Y U u d E  可怜的他在cern待了老久,连个位置都找不到 J1M:X1Z3?;j o(i
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  这个故事说明,工作做得太好了,大家不一定认 0[ ~ { [ o s5D A(n
  
!J k:S a!X j$X6R  为什么这么说呢?看下一个盖尔曼的故事 !V%\,@ u3H2S g u
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  标 题: 物理八卦---32 (p6o I)a4a,I9{.j ]
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 4 12:08:13 2003), 转信 0O A F n#N ? L)~3t7`#j
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@;B9N ? c8J!Z d n I H  盖尔曼在兹维格后不久也得到了夸克理论 %n k&x5W f4f6F
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  然后想发文章阿
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!d s W Z:x u!_ N  可是他跟兹维格不一样,兹维格年轻啊,没被人欺负果阿,不知道厉害阿 F*w c e A4h g l#| s
  盖尔曼可是知道圈内那帮老流氓打击新奇思想的力度,:D ` L N Z L ]6@ p c.} E)V
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  盖尔曼老奸巨滑,写了一片奇短的文章,里面凡是关键的部分都说的含含糊糊, &P v R&I Z&_ o O t2^
  模棱两可,比如分数电荷,1964年盖尔曼在《物理通讯》上发表了论文中说: !N5G'J ^7S K H
  “将夸克看作是质量有限的物理粒子(而非无穷大质量极限的纯数学实体),而
!w I4J1U5} J/q j ^  推测它们的行为方式乃是一个玩笑……在最高能量的加速器上寻找带有-1/3电荷或+2/3 -u l5b9z \ C |
  电荷的稳定夸克,抑或是带有-2/3电荷或+1/3电荷或+4/3电荷的稳定的双夸
@)g H l y ^ D MF'@)n I  克态,将促使我们确信并不存在真正的夸克!”
Z;D ^ F9L   7D O o+{$e v4D S/p
  可怜的兹维格,夸克理论都在圈内流传很久了,他的文章仍然到处悲剧 ,[2^ c'ZK%R9b$[ E }
  
!I k6m v$C m O1|  谁让他写的太详细了呢
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a V*W9E!o"H  标 题: 物理八卦---33
)w Q L { I U r n  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 4 12:12:22 2003), 转信 e8f*e1I L Q
   `6b `*]:W { p$s
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  还是关于可怜的兹维格的 0J)X+R#B*|:r i [6S
  
s d3s6p9f P1z s  他想在大学谋个职位,可惜没有成功,因为他的关于夸克理论的文章使他 e#N1\^ T C.g'm
  在cern名声扫地,某位德高望重的理论物理老前辈评价说那文章纯属江湖 U Q B |$}6K M
  医生的手笔 ~ J N'~ j S+Q
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  恩 R0D KF2P A9w
  
[3Q L'K F E&u  标 题: 物理八卦---34
L | M)w x4f  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 5 14:22:36 2003), 转信 e*N'^ e5a4~ K
  
@ g e(z v#_ } J  关于被人误导 P"\ R1^ w q,q
  
S R u B-{ \(u  Weisskopf大概是有史以来最成功的物理博士后,:D,因为他做的博士后时间长,出
m2| f _ z&z,v;\  的成果也特别的好,:D,好像就是刚开始找工作不是很顺利
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{&j;x S2q  不过他也有很郁闷的时候
y7X r S#R'y l   %]1y ? L,?8x e:A V;V8y3M
  有一次,他计算了量子电动力学的一个问题,然后得出了结果,不久,费曼和施温格 1F s5U G K c$X;j
  (maybe) 也对这个问题得到了他们的结果,不幸的是,费曼和施温格的结果一致,但
S s Z D ] d a  与Weisskopf的不一致 w e O c*x5m U
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  于是Weisskopf这篇文章没敢投 9a9l I l f l [ H w
  
0V1t J o3W h I$e  一年之后feymann和施温格发现是他们两个错了 -N#O6E4r e k
   &O i Y x k e V D h
  像不像少数派报告 P A)W W4P9{ G$o"B ^(R
  
@ v:Q L E j W  标 题: 物理八卦---35
x e |"D7N  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 8 14:32:09 2003), 转信 %l W i0_+~2H0S
   x4l*z v$c Z \
  经过仔细的研究炸药奖历史,俺发现了一条很牛的规律 +U h Q f/l%k
  
] r7z P ~ x  如果你是nobel牛人的儿子,那么有可能获得nobel,比如thomson父子
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  如果你不是他们的儿子,那么女儿也有可能,顺便带上女婿
-| f!| D w P o  
M E8M1t9K E v ?  不过这种可能太小了 H-g d n q |9h(t2~
  
D S)l ?$o,MO h!k0B ?  最大的可能就是当牛人的弟子 l C'k S.Y J s
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  当然你眼光得选好,爱因斯坦那种是不能跟的
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  比如当年从米国去罗马跟fermi的五个postdoc, bethe,Edward Teller, George ] i x,s,A,d1V G
  Placzek, Felix Bloch, and Rudolf Peierls
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P o s,o \'`9I U  这里面bethe 和 bloch是nobel,几率 40%
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;H(u ~8q D i&J p  fermi在芝加哥带的博士如下 2a%j q b-f
  
:^#~ K K d w g.D  George Farwell, Anderson, Wattenberg, Harold Agnew, Goeffrey Chew, Marvin
4r N u!~ U ` @  Goldberger, Jack Steinberger, Owen Chamberlain, Richard Garwin, T. D. Lee, F _/L$`4T1c k {+F
   Uri Hasber-Schaum, Orear, John Rayn, Schluter, Rosenfeld, Horace Taft,
7N X H%g-M W g:S8e j  and Jerome Friedman
3y'w/@ qH)}  其中四个是nobel,几率不到25%,但仍然惊人
4u.I6y ^ N   Z V { y F)I j
  比起买彩票,多大的几率阿 !k y8V8} @ g q k j
  
(F q p!k a:Q&} O `  另一个例子应该是卢瑟福了,hoho,手底下都可以开个nobel常委会了
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  标 题: 物理八卦---36 ;| k#T-B R;^9Z
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 8 14:47:42 2003), 转信 L;W3B,t W p r `
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  fermi有次在讨论班上讲群伦,他先讲了Abelian groups,然后是Burnside's theorem )o m9E C z"B!k;P _)W
  然后是...讲了老半天,讲道了群的定义
V8y N [7n ]-K  
-~"k ] j2R M(^~$E  然后学生就抱怨阿,说怎么讲的这么乱,fermi然后来了句:"群论就是一堆定义的堆
6l ] ] M%\ S/[  砌而已"
r"o p"x c \4\ s9K2S;J   Z L0g#C h6J7U F2i
  他讲课的顺序很简单,就是按照weyl的那本群论的index讲的,所以才会从a到g
e S G @*e.K ] e-?  
b u q/L g c W  标 题: 物理八卦---37
E i!U @ s4Y  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 8 14:53:34 2003), 转信 j)o I K } |i
  
+d0W0O&P w$~ \ L   J u ~ H g2G(z!I n'k W
  fermi对物理学家有自己的分类办法 !Z9c h VV!|
  
m4L y3~*{2J;J ^  1。某些他认为自己可以从对方身上学到一点东西的(在50年代的芝加哥,这样的人
V D'Q9`3`:G!B%v/A  只有一个,盖尔曼
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  2。 有勇气反对他的人,(不幸的是,fermi通常认为自己是对的) h0c0p I G8] G Q f
   C6Q9m'D0T3U
  3. 能够几乎自动的接受他的想法的人,这种人可以做助手 ?$u9@ y7` } a
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  标 题: 物理八卦---38
_ G L g,[ g  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 12 14:21:49 2003), 转信 y F.l Z M v'l%i E
   D(]0\5f t f L
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  据说海森堡给自己弄了个墓志铭,"He lies somewhere here"
5T:M K v"L y4x V G s  
4l x \ ^*u }  直译就是 他在这里,且在别处 S(q O ?3L L x
   6v ] x I H.t U
  俺翻译水平不高,谁英语牛最好重新翻译 f D&G s(X k u
  
J"F tc g0h1@8r _%_3i o  不过明白不确定原理的应该都知道这句话的意思 c ~9M*H7a+X-}"A B4J
  
6U(n;O!q6C n ^ F  标 题: 物理八卦---39 A0h7d a [6C O Q B"j
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 12 14:37:25 2003), 转信
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!h T j c)X&O h  波尔兹曼
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a ^;O:k+l E ^  是伟大的统计物理学家,他对现代的统计物理理论做了奠基性的工作,其中 h#J7v i R5{ ~
  包括了俺一直不太懂得H定理,和谁都不会精确算得波尔兹曼方程,不过可
a2W H z |'E({(k  惜的是这些基石并不是那么牢靠
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  不幸的是他一生在与自己的学术对手作斗争,被迫不停的宣传原子论,更不 z.S d1V!z Z
  幸的是学术上的斗争竟然引入了人身攻击,攻击他的人就包括爱因斯坦很很 p J O)q n0Y4p A k
  佩服的马赫 9K m6n G g t I4e _ C
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  不幸的波尔兹曼最终死于自杀,更不幸的是他刚死,他的对手就都承认了原 D'`*i)i;u y2]
  子论。
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X b A x*\$F Q @ E P K  伟大的波尔兹曼生前很少有支持者,年轻的planck是这少数支持派的一员,
){4Q6d0d){ u F P  但是可怜的planck,波尔兹曼压根看不起他,认为planck和自己不是一路 s2G ~ t5\ u+R
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  这个故事告诉我们,一张厚脸皮和一颗麻木的心对于科学工作者是多么重要啊
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h T,} ? Z  顺便提一句,大数学家康托也是被如此围攻疯的 y { q M I"|+{ v M&R U
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  标 题: 物理八卦---40
n;|%J n n&Z'{  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 12 14:53:07 2003), 转信
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2I o8^ l9R d0~ ~  讲个波尔兹曼的八卦纪念一下他吧
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W7Z*E7m C+H Y Z  波尔兹曼大约上课不喜欢往黑板上写东西,然后学生经常抱怨听不懂
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  然后学生complain阿,说老大,证明太难了,以后往黑板上写,别光讲,
J |7O d U ^  我们记不住。波尔兹曼答应了
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R a q/z7` c ^1v \  第二堂,他又在课上开始滔滔不绝,从a变换到b,b到c...最后总结说, .C Y K5{([
  大家看这个东西如此简单,就跟1+1=2一样
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D W D,d6@ _&j U.{;f"}  然后他突然想起对学生的承诺,于是拿起粉笔,在黑板上工工整整地写
o u(R:z | E!S  了“1+1=2”
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9e6|(|%v { D y4Y Z?9| v  伟大的波尔兹曼的墓志铭是一个伟大的公式 N { @#[9J | z+M U B
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x l y2o(L e.V.@%V v  此公式我认为是物理学中最深刻的公式之一 %X C U @)A H6] _
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  标 题: 物理八卦---41
.V*`!s Z ?  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sun Jul 13 14:08:34 2003), 转信
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  今天讲讲实验物理学家是怎么骗钱的
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#T+}6y1p d z2{-h:x  1969年,Robert Wilson, fermi lab的第一任老大,被要求向 Q!r"o3q h ^/X
  国会报告fermilab在增强国防中的作用 X g S(@ } w5t4P J
  
!~/x+X_:\0Y!^"m  wilson是这样描述的,"我们的实验将给国家带来荣誉,但不可能对 F Y R t X \1P ^2u.z
  国防有任何的直接益处,不过我们有一点可以明确,建造fermilab将
I T)i*_ W o V  使的这个国家更值得保卫" 4o J&E G$I'n%? u
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  原文是 except to help make it worth defending 'x z/K W7z U
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  标 题: 物理八卦---42
'a!J F$k K o7[ S ~;x t  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jul 14 13:43:48 2003), 转信
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  多普勒是怎么验证多普勒效应的
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  恩,大家都知道,限于当时的条件,多普勒同学不可能像我们 /D7} P t H
  一样运用计算机阿什么的记录下波形文件,然后比较频率
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  那他怎么办呢
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8U M K-a5W D7R*}  他请了一帮吹小号的坐在火车拉的平板车上,然后请了一帮能听出绝对音高的 M/y;u ` w'o
  音乐家坐在铁轨旁,让那帮音乐家用他们的耳朵记录下火车靠近和离开的时候
~ P t sn q&H  的声音 y e ? u o Y
  
m M z*?.Z"B w.v  多普勒公式就是这么验证的 w L ] s ^ s1a3? D
  
,b t v-M#R `  实验大牛啊 6H g"? R.n h ` }
  
$Z v y | q ~  标 题: 物理八卦---43
k0L3U E*l  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jul 14 14:56:56 2003), 转信 #G I$A.S Q2b,^ T j @
   S6` t g AA/|%J I+h
  就俺所知道的,大概很少有物理学学家不鄙视哲学家的,虽然ph.D的意思 C7A }2E8f W3c d
  是哲学博士 ;j h s m j e X
   5b K V b(D o d:v&d&m
  feynman同学大概就是其中的代表,他有次给朋友写信说到"最近一切都好,就是
v7p:B N X9t ^ L  我儿子让我担心,他居然想当个**哲学家"
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  标 题: 物理八卦---44
T g/L/z.v0Jk1[  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jul 14 15:11:38 2003), 转信
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?7V%} {!Y | V \  说起来哲学家,就能联系到宗教 6G K$y0N(X m
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  上次我看到教皇对霍金弯腰的那条消息的时候,突然想起来伽利略在 w8D3l H X ae
  宗教审判所认罪的时候的私语,"但它(地球)的确是在转动阿"
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/X9t$` T i"z ?  爱因斯坦文章中经常提到上帝,这使得宗教人士颇为兴奋,甚至到今天, 3Z(D+t B3a!_vC!p"q
  国外的基督教徒经常拿这个做理由劝学自然科学的信教 n M6a$R4l M/f&h$y-\ X1A
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  本来嘛,你们老大都信这个 Y g8U:H;v*e D D
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  可惜爱因斯坦早就驳斥过这种说法,他宣称,他所信仰的,是斯宾诺萨的
%C4B!?.G H4I j  那个上帝,即自然
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;d d:w8@-p;L4L _  标 题: 物理八卦---45 { I w%T r
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jul 14 15:17:04 2003), 转信 u!Z R;@ K s ~
  
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.i \tc K X p  据说有个传说是有人问爱丁顿,说当世只有三个人懂得相对论,爱因斯坦是一个, O n3b e P
  您是一个
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f ~%r h H BP O ?!e1a  爱丁顿沉默了半天,那人说您不必如此谦虚吧 F*\:Y(H X;F ~ c
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  爱丁顿说,我再想那第三个人是谁。
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M+[ I o Z G o3z  这个故事真实性不可考,不过下面的应该是真实的 e ^ L4h9F S,U Q
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  当年普朗克劝爱因斯坦去柏林,爱因斯坦推辞说,“相对论不算什么,郎之万
7r0Y q7B o"P  说全世界也就12个人懂"
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e,i3v D+p I W V  普朗克回答道"可是这12个人至少有八个在柏林"
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  可见当时德国物理学研究之强
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  爱丁顿当年做验证爱因斯坦关于光在引力场偏转的实验,误差跟结果一样大,
'L2L2y3F'X `  但是还是发表了 ,作为广义相对论的重要证据 ^ ^ E w K L6_ U
  
@ p'R$O M  可见有时候实验误差100%也没有关系 0j {%}#G6t F$V
  
VJ {7| @W.Z R u n  标 题: 物理八卦---46 !Y g+y0` v w4o m
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Jul 14 16:08:01 2003), 转信 0o w#h ~;A X:}0a
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  物理学家的良心 f R"j g-U z
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  奥本海默对自己造出来原子弹极为后悔 m F9s P F,y { B
  
;O Q l.a k T6f g"U  据说曾经在联合国大会上发言说,“我双手沾满了鲜血" Z7O"R J!e b K h&S
  
J j ]/b%E V  气的杜鲁门破口大骂,甚至说"是我下令投的,跟他有什么关系" t c V+R+T ^1K4I i t
   ,u gP1g'c r g5k8f
  俺支持杜鲁门
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  标 题: 物理八卦---47 3@ C q t i d G P y T L'i+e
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 15 11:54:03 2003), 转信 X3A R Z+T4z [8M
   p ^ j G5r
  
5G0j*U f h _)Q  美国人很喜欢吹捧费曼的聪明,甚至有本关于他的传记,名字直接就叫 e j D l9I H,]4R S
  genius }S ];@'p l!a.i
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  俺很不爽阿,这就是genius了,小爱怎么办啊 :s3L;Z W k)M-w/m J X+I w
  
B n3^ E g  后来看到pais写小爱的book了, 名字就叫 subtle is the lord P f Q I d
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  一语双关,牛啊
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*q%G M s @;~ ?8B  标 题: 物理八卦---48
6g&_/Z(G-C*?A9A#l  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 15 12:53:31 2003), 转信 4?:c^ h l R5`(S V
  
B V#| |0L v aD  有人说俺对feynman不公平 #W:o { G/[:]T;o h i$p#p
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  俺其实还是很佩服feynman的
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  俺天天算得就是他画的那些鬼图,算到吐血,不佩服都不行
!N @ Y } B8A b V   +q*_(v*v Q/x u B
  这段要讲的是feynman泡妞的本事,这项技能在物理学界大概feynman是老大了 (d(a N&K3d K
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  feynman年轻的时候在cornell当教授,经常跑到舞会去跟女学生跳舞,聊天,
5b(j$S W-@ t  然后每次他自我介绍说是教授,就被骂做骗子,姑娘然后就跑了
'H V g y7D   G s A @:i,o.Y
  feynman过了好久才明白,自己当教授的时候的确太年轻了
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J2} { | [ J6r  好像那时候美国还没有老师与学生不能date的规定
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  下面说说feynman的最后一个老婆,格温尼斯
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4b R.X L C'k,k q$p2g  标 题: 物理八卦---49 D(Y'P Z9y1O j
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 15 13:05:10 2003), 转信 3n,y9T t8T u
  
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M o-D7s M  格温尼斯是个ppmm,而且胸怀大志那种的,要环游地球
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a9| Y n h%Q T,j c p  然后她在日内瓦碰到了feynman
M+F L*t2L-K  
.@ C { t U F  feynman同学听说她要环绕地球,而且现在打工的工资那么少,不禁义愤填膺, D K u F } O3U$K `
  充满爱心的跟她说,到俺米国加利福尼亚的家来当管家吧,俺给你高工资,你
k6a$C9d$P o Y#j/e  可以很快有钱环绕地球 !b1i N P W m!I/C
  
.g N$J/s S ?!\ J  于是格温尼斯就这样被骗到了米国,然后不久被骗成了feynman的老婆,环绕
qw W D4T C O  地球?当然还是会的,跟费曼一起了
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  同学们要注意学习手法阿
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  格温尼斯真的超pp阿,大家可以找一下照片
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)h f F&B I  标 题: 物理八卦---50 2] X#] I z q5I.t2R m+l!G
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 18 10:29:01 2003), 转信
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o j)p4w9q v  关于小爱的地位 2u J+Z9K \ o B {&e
   v q.l+Q k!m1r ^0[ f E
  毋庸置疑,对于我们这些学物理的人来说,小爱在上一世纪简直就是god e O2i G;b I
  
v E p&f W;l g  波恩曾经认为,pauli也许是比爱因斯坦还牛的科学家,不过他又补充说,
S;K F3s ^ I n [ ]6t!C [  pauli完全是另一类人,“在我看来,他不可能像爱因斯坦一样伟大” .X+I B s/T'O8Y#L;b }
   8v X y B*R
  那么pauli是怎么看爱因斯坦的呢? 9K D+~t#o z N
   *D4y4t,W1a!x d n0M `
  在1945年,pauli终于拿到了那个他觉得自己20年前就应该拿到的nobel后,
{ u I V)e(X#A m  普林斯顿高等研究院为pauli开了庆祝会,爱因斯坦为此在会上演讲表示祝贺 "b8o%m R Z![
  
#j L R X%J q {;e  pauli后来写信给波恩回忆这一段,说"当时的情景就像物理学的王传位于他的
;{]%l1E*~ ?#i b S2s9n  继承者"
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  pauli倒是一点都不客气,认为自己就是继承者了,:D
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w4T Q:C*d!L&H.t  标 题: 物理八卦---51 u#K9p(h&j f
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Jul 18 11:18:16 2003), 转信 l(]'J S U!E q(l
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8C7f,b L8p#A o W o  纪念一下pauli
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X e-g5x!K V0M  这位先生是上个世纪少有的天才之一
k f F v,i u J {;F   /[ vE O ? X U'A&R
  pauli同学出生于维也纳一个研究胶体化学的教授的家中,他的教父是
"G B W*_+C z7u b&w2o  著名的马赫先生。马赫先生被小爱同学称为相对论的先驱,虽然马赫先
~ [ R S G F |3s  生并不给小爱这个面子,声称他对于相对论的相信程度,像他对分子论
e6a+o(] V m8K/n F  的相信程度一样。而众所周知,马赫先生极端反对分子论,而这种反对 } x5v D3G%o N ]7V:^
  是我们前面提到的那个统计物理的天才最终绝望而自杀的原因之一。 1V+j s T*I f
  
l @ q U O5e-e%P b6R  pauli幼年如何天才我们就不赘述了,他的第一篇文章是一片有关weyl的 `#Z d c O L
  关于重力和电磁场的规范理论的文章,weyl评价说这片文章带有强烈的
&^ J d,QF,n8g u X  pauli风格
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  在pauli 21岁的时候,他为德国的《数学科学百科全书》写了一片长达 :F/L7t"x b K P-C
  237叶的关于狭义和广义相对论的词条,该文,到今天仍然是该领域的 0C `-k"h9w+x"~
  经典文献之一,爱因斯坦曾经评价说,“任何该领域的专家都不会相信, k P0W V K?
  该文出自一个仅21岁的青年之手,作者在文中显示出来的对这个领域的
0[ T.M f ?  理解力,熟练的数学推导能力,对物理深刻的洞察力,使问题明晰的能 F1S { e%L D l
  力,系统的表述,对语言的把握,对该问题的完整处理,和对其评价,
9Y ~ F Z2H f  是任何一个人都会感到羡慕”
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-K,S7F/a%K I.@  少数年轻人大约以为这个物理学的王子的名字只是与不相容原理联系在 k.G e"K g e J j
  一起,甚至他们以为这个原理只是量子力学的一个推论。实际上,这个
6v"b%P)V V Q!~  原理的提出是在1925年,甚至早于海森堡提出量子力学,pauli是用他
t"V P w L:g C9y+E n  天才的洞察力从浩如烟海的光谱数据中得出的不相容原理,其难度甚至
&}8d7X#`"w b Y5c  远大过开普勒整理行星轨道的数据
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\%t R9P t(T X  pauli的贡献遍及当时物理学的各个领域,他参与了量子力学的基础建设,
.l!Y y ` ? h4G+O  量子场论的基础建设,相对论。。。。。。
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  pauli似乎在物理学领域是一个征服者而不是一个殖民者,他大量的工作 M y J,F&g+p)u H r8s
  没有发表,而是遗留在私人信件里。今天我能查到的信件中,我们发现 ;[!_ h)k a f W
  大量这样的例子,他的关于矩阵力学和波动力学的等价性证明是写在
8t)q E o:~3e M;m  给jordan的信件里,测不准原理首先出现在他给海森堡的信件里,dirac
M c+?"W N ^  的泊松括号量子化被Hendrik Kramers 独立发现,而他指出,pauli早就
F'M E:\s g,` V.q;F  指出了这种对易关系的表示方法 2f h4P f:R |2C;{
  
j a P ~ B m  或许有些天才的生命是注定短暂的,pauli生于1900年,于1958年去世,仅比
Q'a m m d.m;U uX4T H  他心中帝王晚去世3年,(爱因斯坦1879-1955),他唯一的遗憾就是一生中
&| Z!g k2W t3A  觉得没有做出像他的king一样伟大的工作。 ] { b G Y l5G1b
  
%[ D S,L T m(W$[9x  仅以此怀念pauli
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  标 题: 物理八卦---52
|1~:P9c} i:G:z k  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Jul 22 16:05:53 2003), 转信
3d k;\&N2g)m9G ^  
c$\%D M&C  pauli作为一个物理学家,眼光是相当锐利的
&J0l*?3[ r'a!] [ w  
j S { z x  比如feynman说的那个故事,pauli预言惠勒永远做不出那个什么超前推迟势
5G0t T n C W| L n  的量子力学推广(果然他没作出),feynman事后着实被puali的眼光震惊了 -@ T4x(E u I ]$o V7a ~ H Y
  
r!b a j H/M0a s  不过pauli年轻的时候大概是他最牛的时候,他和海森堡认识的时候,虽然
q'n c2F$E x0Z!J  两人几乎一样大,但是海森堡对他当真是言听计从,看来十分崇拜
;e i-K;i/D {8w L   $~,M o1P(n(p w)y u
  海森堡刚开始想做相对论方向的工作,pauli作为已经在相对论方面已经算
K1~ B6C P u D  是一个小专家的人物,他告诉海森堡,“他觉得相对论方面近期的进展是
kl u S K1h;`'|-p  hopeless,但是原子物理方面机会却是大大的。"
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  要是海森堡去做相对论,hoho,不知道以后会是什么样子 2g!s I${4a x/R,t I
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F j(f g c T P D n5]  标 题: 物理八卦---53
H5T J+? ~;G  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Jul 24 12:26:08 2003), 转信
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's7Z D6c'Z R  "if I have seen further [than others] it is by standing on the shoulders s&U0W Q5v4}9{3i V k"R N
   of giants."
^2~ T Z0Z c/Y  
c n l } ? d F e5V"s  大概有不少年轻孩子都因为这句话觉得牛顿巨谦虚
O k C W [ A N N  
f%X `8j z N  其实,其实这句话很损的
i0P!H!h R6K P6K p J  
q;z,x.B9n8` B v$c(q  胡克,就是胡克定律那个,一直宣称万有引力是他先发现的,后来牛老大怒了,
d#L @#~ ~%p  就给他写了一封信,其中包含了这句话。 q0p k ?$] t
   u:{ \6p c P-_5t)q"v | U
  意思嘛,很明显,就是说就算我的发现借鉴了前人的工作,那也只是借鉴了大
*B7T \1B _$X D"z1f%m  牛的那些,至于你,还不配
"~ T7k+B k n r   -x t [ z f)\ Z:T!U }
  俺到老晚才知道这个事情,然后就知道,看来骂起仗来,物理学家不比其他人差 :i-{ e b w
   :C%\p"? ?:a b
  :D:D
A*G2T$b(c7p6{ V   H.t8m6D M B
  这个是不是ukim讲过? -N C o5R } b3o&]
   *E6Y [ { U$z,x
  标 题: 物理八卦---54 F G T a9v e-C @1V
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Jul 24 12:46:11 2003), 转信 d!Y N ])G g#X g
   &B2@ ?)[0M3V)?
   ?7s S(J"H0v
  讲讲老实孩子是怎么倒霉的 B9Y9D'r L c,M n)R
   ^ B3@ f1^ ],y%}
  欧姆同学,就是那个欧姆定律那个,这孩子从小做事认真努力, w/x.C ? d
  经过不懈研究,终于得出了欧姆定律 U=I*R,想想在当时,这是
&Y X w1h q D4n#w  多大的发现阿,按理说剩下tenure房子车子ppmm应该会全来了 /I ? S#q4y-P'W)P ? S
  
d z L I(V \%Q g _  不幸的是,这个定律实在是太简单了,完美的线性关系,在
@ e&G i M `  那些老大们看来,根本不可能。 9[3O p F o
  
}7?&G2J6_6M2L  于是ohm的tenure没拿到,还被攻击为骗子ohm,更别说房子车子ppmm了
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  标 题: 物理八卦---55 e"` k3} t3B8j
  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Jul 24 13:05:05 2003), 转信 u1~ S*H!d0l Y
   7k xk*A%p1V+R'g*f.X H5g
  小爱赌钱 D X ^ G {&s(V q G w g
  
M%I3P'z i  有一年开会,会场选在了那个拉斯韦加斯,当然了跟国内选九寨沟什么 8l O5] E%\ r R#C
  的一样,都是要找能腐败的地方。 +l r4n)J o D%s*q
  
[;I X'l }3u k x)n  我们的小爱同学在那里做了一件很不好的事情,他疯狂的赌钱。
| R%y#Y#^ [ Z4?.I&_  
[ L'U9@ B)V c7J  然后有个物理学家就评论说,“我从来没想过爱因斯坦也会这样,好像
1~ i#e T u `  要见不到明天的太阳了似的。" C | {)i ` @W E6a-I
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  另一个愁容满面,叹了口气说,"我担心的就是这个,我总觉得他的确是 t j0w L ] C K z'j {
  知道会有什么事情发生"
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   k Y q f4M E [?%a
  标 题: 物理八卦---56
-g8T'} ^ B ?;p E  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 26 09:47:14 2003), 转信 x%~ ~ l.T4i(I5^
  
"B1h2r Z*~ x.A b6G8^ ~   I.M a M W ];y f
  很多人不肯承认,其实很多大牛年轻的时候也很惨的
6^ P9X.]-U K.Z x m p \ |c   k/w$x'j v r*B!N-i n
  比如laughlin,据说他得出那个波函数以后,有很久到处追着大牛,给他们
c%c _&u eV6~;D8Z  讲述自己的思想,挺可怜的,不过自打得了nobel,也就摇身变成大牛了,很拽了 G7j7w g _
  
6v t x+D(C4a2| q;O  而且当年他好像在什么地方做博后,据说穷的被老婆骂,hoho ,` t |,A i f!} k
  
?W6O L P  btw,
P B q w8W C R   j7l ? _!? L
  我觉得laughlin那个结果非常合理 #W T Y&Z E [4v#R
  第一次看到的时候就这么觉得
S3}3t#y"l I ~ p  放弃单粒子的波函数,从对称构造近似解,是很有物理头脑的做法
Z S4S,}4@'X s!\ A  hoho ;v8| f ~ E c
  
-Y0c+K e q  another btw,
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  另外这个猪头的Autobiography大概是 [url]www.nobel.se[/url]中最长的了,简直就是流水账 +^ `6S q"@!Z$W
  
i H K'W m9o Z  标 题: 物理八卦---57
v ^'Q P'g3f  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jul 26 11:21:58 2003), 转信 Q'{3G X B ?6n-^)[
  
a*u ]$i V   m \ j h E h+{
  这段讲两个不是名人的八卦
Z G*M9?:v X k _(@ Y   A"T m)T%Z
  纽约大学苏卡尔,物理教授写了一篇关于哲学与科学关系的文章,其中引用了 {(u L C p t C I6c B
  最新的物理研究成果,引用了大量物理大师的文章,指出,在当前物理发展如 W S h5K y Y c |
  此迅猛的时代,科学的发展不可避免的被烙上哲学的印记 ] ^ F I#C
   Q"g.w d G'H cU1M+f
  这篇文章发在了著名的美国杜克大学出版的著名的“文化与政治分析”学术季
? G'N9_ O ] T |9g  刊《社会文本》(Social Text)上。 L9G w/B h q I-E
   2l } Z s'L G"| m s
  然后苏卡尔在三个星期后承认,那篇文章纯粹是胡扯
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  无独有偶 .I7V {"p ~1q B K H
  
o%] s;i.w u _ | t(h'z5P  法国有两个记者,靠两片生编乱造的超弦论文,在一个不著名的小大学,拿了 e%A*w(O B;{8e3z1B
  物理学博士
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  自己体会,我就不总结了
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  苏卡尔事件网上很多地方都有,可以google
4u7z ] k+i"m$S)g  
_ ?6T'[5J#i M  标 题: 物理八卦---58
7\ @ o L q Ru:w x5|  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sun Jul 27 09:38:57 2003), 转信 4O p#A i p s r J0U
  
N5] O ] ` K  爱因斯坦的小心眼 i r:i Z D a z#a
  
E(V \ T J I;F  可怜的爱因斯坦,当年在苏黎世读书的时候,也是满可怜的。
X M Q1Q-M ^ U   7E0v n ? J U:G `7h V {
  他和另外三个学生一起获得了一个叫fachlehrer的冬冬(大概就是作助教的资格), }-B+Q { {(Q5j W
  另外三个人立马就拿到了位置,偏偏小爱没拿到。(另一个学生,爱因斯坦未来的 X;e"s'{Q6L
  第一任夫人,未能通过fachlehrer) w u"N ^3G0s Q ^)?6?
   U+G1f _ M S
  当时系里管这个的是weber,好像他对于爱因斯坦不是很满意,曾经批评爱因斯坦 P m c p j9H0J
  不喜欢听从他人意见(原文是 but you have one great fault, you do let
/S c G e Z*s)@  yourself be told anything)。据说爱因斯坦对实验兴趣不大也是跟这个有关
7B jy0R(N x U3D `(W   J b s.C X B/N.X
  小爱大概快被郁闷死了,以至于终生对weber耿耿于怀。当Weber去世的时候(1912), &X6X}4U n B
  小爱居然写了这样一封信给朋友,信中声称"weber's death is good for the ETH". 6] e7B X \&D [ M
  
Z }-A i O D r.m%o  ETH zurich就是苏黎世理工学院了
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  关于这个系列的一个声明。
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{%T+~3m#k V k  本系列的故事,凡是其中包含“据说”大部分都是道听途说,但剩下的大量故事
:Z E-Y S X:m h,b  基本都可以在正式出版的传记类书籍里找到出处,真实性自然有所保证。
0}.q&i ] T'g b W   T j R X+}
  参考过下列书籍或者杂志。 E"[ j ? B;\ e u Y6f
   6[ ^ o)j |.m
  pais, <subtle is the lord>
] z*N ` |'W  D.cassidy <uncertainty> )[ z T L'\
  J.gribbin <richard feynman> :x+@,m f G/| Q1D i
  J.Gleick <genius> @6U A r'O.M @ X/k o
  W.elsasser <memoris of a physicist in the atom age>
0S A"m4w C Q K  E.segre <enric fermi> 4p Q(? P2G)K A X l X
  其他参考过的,但是现在不在手头的,有feynman的两本传记 <别闹了,费曼先生>
x t D ` I+Bk B  《你干吗在乎别人怎么想》,还有大量曾经阅读过的传记,可惜忘了 (E g G ?/r%\ f*v }.~ m!J
  
} J n4X K*u z  fermi的故事和pauli的故事部分取材自 physics today, !l*t.l%I H5{ @ | X
  
E$k,E ?5c Gu E J @5O  少量故事取材于网上。
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3U e2} @6T s  至于骂卢梭是人渣,当然也是骂之有据,具体可以参见
w#k9l f%U2I  《知识分子》,[英]保罗·约翰逊著,杨正润 1a5R s:}3A N \ W T
  
[&~&g%]8_ D L/H&U  题目八卦,但是内容实在不敢乱讲,发paper都是要找引文的 "M s#Q7f g f!L*?L
  
,x!V j,H I X R"W  标 题: 物理八卦---59
:F)D0W b G8U h K S5S  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Jul 31 12:09:06 2003), 转信 g6L;x n m v
  
(_ Z{7h S:d  据说 6o/^2r0I*V a&L J ];f/S3Q
  
b'} { { d I OH ~  霍金有一次作报告,有人问到关于做研究的快乐,他回答道,“ O \ V!f2|(B c;N
  跟做爱差不多,不过前者更持久”
l-S_ R.}   2S&q X6b5A,U
  有点x,mm们原谅
B"O@-P hh B#Ds   !G K/\7e i n
  对比一下第27篇的feynman,可见物理学家也是性情中人阿 9F'g @ u!Q B
   *D I3a5l*X R,? ^ ? ^
  标 题: 物理八卦---60
{ {:j4T y c0] E c d  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sun Aug 3 17:09:34 2003), 转信 .w7X z;W4t3P+U$A5^
   S p0e e s:I x A'O5Ju
  还是关于波尔兹曼的 (boltzmann)
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X T U e5C  前面说过boltzmann的墓志铭是 S=k*lnW
P l { W(F y o+B9t1C  
o!N#u3T m w W ~  不过墓碑下面有说明,从书面材料来看,第一个写出这个公式的是planck, H/l A | }7j d V-N ^)H
  不但如此,那个boltzmann常数k,第一个采用这个符号的,也是planck,而且 ,f ~ Y Q/b f*e
  不是出现在这个公式,是出现在黑体辐射公式里的,:D
2E z W U R2q   p S1g [4r _ G$e r&T
  不过俺这一回主要不是讲这个
^'H:x'a.I   G o H b0v ? I Z(D
  boltzmann据说还算是很会讲课的,但是他写论文的水平好像不咋地,经常文章 M w+} ` r _ X R Y$H
  含糊不清,充斥大量烦人的计算,小麦同学(麦克斯韦了)曾经抱怨说,"我实在 X E i p4K,b8Y Q2Y'g'] T
  是看不懂波尔兹曼的文章,他看不懂我得咚咚可以说是因为我做得不好,但他的
;I N s$B)u$r m'P  文章对我来说也一样" `5P y.} u p)J _ v
   1I t ] u m C
  这也就罢了,看看小爱怎么说的,小爱有次对个学生评价说,"波尔兹曼的文章
/X2u3J k"a m7~*| d  是不太好懂,很多老大都看不懂",原文是"There are many great physicists
? jv v"?#i  could not understand it"
t b _ Q v T:C h-m k  
C M F5H7M H H n i  小爱当时还年轻,估计还没把自己归类到great那一组呢,:D -V ` N ^;` R;b V8e b$C
   E s f ?;U3M9\4w1x [
  这个故事告诉我们,文章我们读不懂,是他写得不好
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  -- #V @ p:@ {"b!N k i
  一切哲学家都应该吊死,最宽容也得像苏格拉底一样被毒死 H j O C Z
  
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  标 题: 物理八卦---61
O f e)c }  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Aug 8 12:42:56 2003), 转信
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C(r.a U ]0P L0p   7`8v(O D L1P
  说说fermi小时候
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  fermi大概小时候很聪明,高中毕业去投考pisa大学(就是斜塔那个比萨),入学 h'x!C N T8G0v R Z+} k
  考试要求个人交一片论文,fermi同学就写了一篇论声音,其中写出了一根杆 {e _ ^8F9] f
  震动的偏微分方程,然后用福立叶分析得到了结果
,n'R,L | F _ t p u e.v   ?S6~ y q j,R l
  于是把主考官下了一大跳,专门面试他,然后告诉fermi说,认为他前途无限
+F L9r I S b(p O   D5?:v J z&H e
  sigh,其实我估计高中有不少人会这个,可是新fermi还是没出来啊
^ z k#U Y j   W0U+{ H P%H
  标 题: 物理八卦---62
J%J/_ b ~!a4p C  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Mon Aug 11 10:26:53 2003), 转信
q m1b Z u.]/l  
~'p ^ k M r"C { @ |:S  关于poincare 和 Einstein ;d R x K:i e K D:o T
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  研究过相对论的大部分都知道,在爱因斯坦之前,其实lorentz和poinacre
c#l o9S ~  都已经在相对论这个方向上作了大量的工作。爱因斯坦个人对lorentz更是 Q j)} B2@(\ N g
  敬爱与尊重,但鲜为人知的是,爱因斯坦和poincare几乎完全不对路
!a)Y ` Q4g C {  
4A y p G f9E ?%o'e w,V  poincare似乎是完全接受不了爱因斯坦的的理论,虽然两个人的结果是 I L d:z*d
  几乎一样的。所以poincare虽然一辈子也作了不少关于相对论的演讲 1d O$b1y p A
  (按照他的说法,估计得叫poincare变换),但是从来就没有提起过爱因斯坦
[ k"d l s!o0F-r  与相对论这两个词,:D (爱因斯坦的狭义相对论发表于1905) (C q9p0h @3D
   Q Y4J#M S+^ c1O/R x;?
  大概是在1912年初,ETH(苏黎世理工)要聘请爱因斯坦当教授,poincare )@*A!E-e b$`
  写了一封信,大大的夸奖了爱因斯坦一番,不过最后一段比较恶搞,:D
B j C3B P%E d [(g  “我不认为他所有的预言都能被将来的实验所验证,由于他从事的方向那么多, n:o o R ~ e [0B0O
  因此我们应该会想到,他的某些研究会走向死胡同。但在同时,我们有希望 4e w8N+I,n8j a a
  认为他走的某一个方向会获得成功,而这一个,就足够了” &ORc"? g3p8E
  
g o W s O.R o X  大家可以仔细品味品味,:D
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,p `#D e/j  不过小爱同学在这方面也做的不够好,甚至还不如poincare,:D
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  poincare于1912年去世,然后有个数学界的兄弟,大概叫 Leffler的,给小爱 &e/[ s#z#e j M u
  去了一封信,说要出个纪念文集给poincare,小爱拖了四个月才回信说,由于
8P,Y5aA-L#b V d  路上的耽搁,信刚刚收到,估计已经晚了,偏偏这位leffler不死心,说晚了 T a F p H |$}$j
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  still further"
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  狭义相对论之前,小爱并不是很注意这个实验
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  不过小爱后来对迈克尔逊的称赞还是大大地 ;V i ] W5V J(o5p
  
;H s B f)Q6w&A |  有一次,小爱访问米国,然后跟迈克尔逊聊天,小爱就问迈克尔逊,说你对测
d C G G vd h1q0@  光速这个实验为什么那么感兴趣,作了那么多工作
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  迈克尔逊回答道,"because I think it is fun"
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  当时两人闲聊,planck问小爱最近在忙什么工作,小爱说正在做重力的理论,
`+L"k9i O!x H  planck就对小爱说,"作为一个老朋友,我不得不劝你,第一这个工作估计
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  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Sep 3 15:57:29 2003), 转信 G!D _:~ t g @ s9@
  
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K W N#\ T K \  作为量子论的开创者之一,爱因斯坦后来对量子力学的态度,实在是
)B A8c ^ v;l @1K*A X r  不提也罢,不过个人反对倒也罢了,可怜的born因为他,足足晚了二十
o.~ { ^ d+e/[  多年才拿到nobel,(1954,爱因斯坦去世前一年) ?6` L k(Q#F
  
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  发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Oct 18 15:37:18 2003), 转信
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  嘿嘿,这次不是关于名人的,但绝对搞笑
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!]-e2y N L2@.q+r#e-g  是对的得时候,他举例说,比如人在地球上手里的东西如果放开,那么东西 7g _ J S+j l/U |
  会下落,但是在月球上,那东西会浮起来 P3{ Y*j E8l S
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  ta说道,因为那里太远,没有地球引力 l N8W [;L9P
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  后来这帮工科学生对学校内的文科学生作了调查,结果被调查的70%以上的文科
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(O Y N s&C  为了给他们留面子,我就不说是哪所学校了
ntgxw 发表于 2010-1-3 14:22
大师!*[:@ i I+r X.I r
大师是学数学的吧。。。
|8l ~ x G崇拜ing。。。
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 16:04
会被人类学家鄙视,参见SharonTraweek所写的《物理与人理—对高能物理学家社区的人类学考察》::z2
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:11

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求该书的电子书::11
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 16:13

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::z2 无电子版,只有实体书,好像ebookee上有这本书的英文原版?/_ U o v Q I X3{ I

6b a G W \ ?#VI倒是扫描过她在哪本书里的一个章节,等我找找看
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SHARON TRAWEEKASSOCIATE PROFESSORPh.D. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1982, from the Program in the History of Consciousness (Advisers: Hayden White and Gregory Bateson; thesis committee: James Clifford, Shelly Errington, Triloki N. Pandey, Thomas Rohlen, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo)--M.A. Calif State Univ at San Francisco in Modern European History. Vartan Gregorian, adviser.--B.A. University of California at Berkeley in History (Adviser: Robert O. Paxton)
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Research InterestsI am an associate professor in the History Department at UCLA; I have also been on the faculty of the Anthropology Department at Rice University and the Program in Anthropology & Archeology and to the Program in Science, Technology, & Society at MIT. I have held visiting faculty positions at the Mt Holyoke Five College Women's Studies Research Center, the Anthropology Department at the University of California at San Diego, and the Program in Values, Technology, Science, and Society at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. in 1982 from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. +r5D/| K%[ d

Y q#} w'wM U mMy first book is Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (Harvard University Press, 1988, paperback 1992). My next book, which is on Japanese big science, and a third on crafting cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine are both nearly completed; I have also published 25 articles in books and journals of anthropology, Asian studies, communications, cultural studies, history, and women's studies. )|6p { o5` I F'i
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Since receiving my Ph.D. I have given over 180 talks in 11 countries for researchers in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, history, international relations, Japan studies, science and technology studies, science education, and women's studies; during the coming academic year twelve more are already scheduled. My work has been supported by, among others, the Danforth Foundation, the Fulbright Association, the Luce Foundation, the National Science Foundation, MIT, Rice University, UCLA, the University of California, and the Japanese government.
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For health reasons [increasing limitations in my physical mobility] I focused the last few years on doing research [usually requiring travel], writing articles, deferring writing books until later, although writing books are still required for promotion in history. Three years ago I had major surgery [relieving severe compression on my spinal cord in my neck]; that and ongoing physical therapy has alleviated many of my long-standing health problems. ? H k3I9_)e V9^ l$q
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NotesCONSULTING
S v2^o!r'q uEMember, Advisory Group on Global Linear Collider, KEK, 2002.
3i)[.d | E9dConsultant, Science Policy Group, Iwate Prefectural Government, Japan, 2001 and 2002. 'o p q ^ K y J |
Advisory Editor for The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli for Routledge Press, 1999. R O"C$o S&c E-c [9^
NSF-supported project on "Curriculum Development in Cultural Studies of Science," Joseph Rouse, principlal investigator, 1995-1998 Z B S q l p)C
NSF-supported project on "Constructing Engineers: A Participant-Observation Study of Undergraduate Engineering Education," Gary Downey, principal investigator, 1992-1996
;_ @ N C2C;aCurriculum Development in Science, Technology, & Society for Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1983-1985 W4L!w P H
NSF-supported project on ethnography of engineering design, MIT, 1982-1984 PI: LL Bucciarelli X0r O5? S P \ o R z0}
NSF-supported project on computer conferencing among scientists, Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, California, 1978-1979 PI: Robert Johansen
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5Y9S)m%a \-Q K oPROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT I)N5g5m0Y I/{
Visiting Researcher, Sokendai Graduate University for Advanced Study, Hayama, Japan Summer 02 +j c/n4?/f'o M
Director, Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology & Medicine, History Department, UCLA O3l O%e7R Q A
1994- 2000 [jointly with Professors Ted Porter and Mary Terrall] Q c G a(H(u
Associate Professor, History Department and Women's Studies Program, UCLA, 1993-present ;a p1r p r z2^-O m
Luce Visiting Professor, Five College Women's Studies Center, South Hadley, MA, Fall 1993
f A"w"H Y/Z(| U$]*_Japanese Government Senior Scientist, KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Japan, January - August 1991 b i L t UC3p1U
Visiting Associate Professor, Anthropology Dept., University of California at San Diego,
~#N { d v g f V4}4hJanuary-July 1990 j'n;P f(w a
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Rice University, 1987-1993 o+W W D N.d F {
Visiting Scholar, Program in Values, Technology, Science, and Society, Stanford University, 1984
}X'I ~ L EAssociate Professor, Joint Appointment, Program in Anthropology & Archeology and Program in Science, Technology, & Society, MIT, 1986-7; Assistant Professor 1982-86
$L n {7G I | B KLecturer, Program in Values, Technology, Science, and Society, Stanford University, 1980-1981 p s%ly @ }
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES q O,] K1~/L-c
Primary host for two scholars visiting UCLA September 2004-February 2005 9a p c w%F X C(g
Historian Tiago Saraiva [Portugal and Spain] and Anthropologist Tomiyuki Uesugi [Japan]
l | u o I n G ZCurrently organizing a workshop on Digital Archives to be held at UCLA, July 2004 *M b1J:]7M e
Primary host for Helena Pettersson, a graduate student in anthropology and gender studies, Umea University, Sweden, visiting UCLA January-June 2004
\ O6P x E.] S*iMember, Digital Cultures Seminar, USC, 2003-5 r G'u xj ?,Z
Organized a workshop on Digital Archives held at UCLA, July 2003 o ?%V v7aj q ? h*Z
Organized a workshop on Digital Archives held at KEK, Japan, July 2003
'z8f z+\ a w#a)Y [Member, Advisory Editorial Board, The Science Studies Reader, edited by Mario Biagioli for Routledge Press, 1999
W,k r'V R+B |'B+zMember, Editorial Board, Journal of Feminist Economics, 1994-1999 ;L ] C q2o1d-Y$v:F
Member, Editorial Board, Chinese Science [soon to be East Asian Science]1994-1995 ;w \'] q E q.y H&h w a
Member, Editorial Board, Social Studies of Science, 1994-1996
q \ c5H T d Z u6_Consulting editor, "Institutional Structures of Feeling" series, Westview Press, 1990-present
9a1C d4T f {8@Manuscript reviewer, American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, Educational Policy, Journal of Organizational Computing
8T-u c P:M'fManuscript reviewer, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Minnesota Press, New York University Press, SUNY Press, University of Wisconsin Press
(B n2K h d bCouncil Member, Society for the Social Study of Science, 1991-1994 h9d'F&A*\
Co-Organizer, Residential Faculty Seminar on Cultural/Gender/Social Studies of Science, Technology, & Medicine, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, January-June, 1996 [other co-organizers: Mario Biagioli and Roddey Reid]
(S!N&e s,_6f r6~:~ f9LCo-Organizer, Gender and Science Steering Committee, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, 1994- [other co-organizers: Sandra Harding and Kathryn Hayles]
%H5n)U f+O-s B+L"dCo-Organizer, Workshop on Located Knowledges, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, October 1994 [other co-organizers: Mario Biagioli and Roddey Reid] +b @0^ A v%L p x
Co-Organizer, Conference on Cyborg Anthropology, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1993 [other co-organizers: Gary Downey and Joseph Dumit]
!C b U ~ ^ jCo-Organizer, Conference on Located Knowledges: Intersections among Cultural, Gender and Social Studies of Science, April 1993, UCLA, funded by University of California Humanities Research Institute [other co-organizers: Mario Biagioli and Roddey Reid] k o$}#u E+N
Site Visitor (with Todd LaPorte, Professor, Political Science, University of California at Berkeley) to evaluate the proposed Ph.D. Program in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, for the Doctoral Evaluation Project, New York State Education Department, Albany, NY, 1987 E y"v Z }.N'L/X G$W
Proposal reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies, 1990-present
'a2p.s n!r b x'}-j"oProposal reviewer, NSF Program in Society, Science & Technology, 1984-present 'a c,T$T Z$[*U$@ |
Funding Panel, Humanities, Science & Technology, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 1984 4H X f4u W V
Organizer of Panels, Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, 1991-1994 0C1l ] b;Q:N7C k+O
Organizer of Panels, Annual Meetings, Society for Social Studies of Science,1984, 1985, 1994 3V+A q!s i
Panel Chair, History of Science Society, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, October 1994 3h m'd O6m*L

:`)|4q/j1D,` u%?+M V Q$} yADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:
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v,O.y Q5L V3UMember, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Japanese Studies, 1997-present
Z9G%d y M {Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for the Study of Women, 1994-present
g t:x%Y F;x O wMember, Awards Committee, Women’s Study Program, 2003, 2004
0R ?4A O/N/v r \Member, Gender and Science Steering Committee, Center for the Study of Women, 1994-
7d O:U | |0@0n p:W2V C9YMember, Women's Studies Program, 1994-present j5[3f T)J O j Q4{ R*j9U*C
Member, Computing Committee, History Department, 2003 7@ E#x V/t a d R
History of Science Field Coordinator, History Department, 94-95 H V ^ p X }
Member, Committee on Graduate Guidance and Curriculum, History Department, 1994-8
e,x.t2R X-t m0zMember, World History Committee, History Department, 1995-96 i D$_;W$e @
Member, Teaching Committee, History Department, 1997-8 Y#o3] B W Z
Member, Advisory Board, UCLA Neurosciences History Archive, 1996-98 3d4O `"H'H,S V
Member, Advisory Committee, UCLA History of Pain Studies Archive, 1996-2000
8c6Z+G C H/X n l7v5JMember, Search Committee, History Department, 1996-7
b4n b @"x vRice University: z V q n q B!o
Member, Committee to evaluate the Center for Cultural Studies, 1992-1993
k G3k%q p q ` J ?Member, Ad-Hoc Committee on the Climate for Women at Rice, 1992 a/n7e C:q.\ ] j0L q
Member, Scientia (honorary society sponsoring programs on science, technology, and culture) 1988-93 .{7h7o Y n'J B/o
Member, Scientia Committee on Research and Curriculum, 1992-1993
9k x'@ U [ a.U XMember, Scientia Faculty Seminar, 1990-1992 9B x W1M s j'M5_-_
Member, Women's Studies Program Curriculum Committee, 1990-1993 N q!B"f h K }
Mentor, Rice Undergraduate Fellows Program, 1990-1991
.{ lS/o/U/V8_$q o4^Member, Rice University Press Advisory Committee, **-1990 o K(u u k n-{
Co-Director, Graduate Program in Anthropology, 1988-1993 s*h M { g;z/A H)v f
Co-organizer, Faculty Feminist Reading Group, 1988-**; member, 1987-1993
5?6b:U6F k3K-n f B BMember, Panel of Inquiry on Sexual Harassment, 1988-1990 U t e b7d#q C"A Z

x&C A { P F J z9eMIT:
+Q I)P8[ J N ? |Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee of the Dean of Engineering and the Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences ("Keniston Committee"), 1985 #u;V i$i D g
Member, Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize in Art Committee, 1985
0_&U&[,^%D ?Member, Curriculum Committee, Program in Science, Technology, & Society, 1984-1985 Y \ f X | i5O U n
Member, Humanities Department Policy Committee, 1984-1985
\ L.^ U D&l { }Member, Women's Advisory Board, 1984-1987
)z m!@ D$@ d*^:sa l;Q,]Chair, Material Culture Seminar, Program in Anthropology & Archeology, 1983-1985
h z-E Q3e {3lOrganizer, Ethnographic Studies of Science and Technology Seminar, Program in G l M#x b | Z j9S
Science, Technology, & Society, 1983-1984 P A:^-X ^4N3H A h A4K
Member, Advisory Committeee for Women's Studies Program, 1983 P5{2D y k"_
Member, Exxon Fellowship Committee, Program in Science, Technology, & Society, 1983-84 p6B)o g G d)`8V3A }#A
Stanford: h zC W&a1{
Minority and Gender Concerns Committee, Western Culture Curriculum, 1980-81
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9T Y u#I9V%Q#P n$v c mPROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
"S J D L x ? G;}1LAmerican Anthropological Association (elected Fellow 1993) [AAA], American Ethnological Society [AES], Society for Anthropology of Work, Society for Cultural Anthropology [SCA], Society for Psychological Anthropology, Society for Visual Anthropology [SVA] &^;{2j p'D4I
Association for Asian Studies [AAS], Fulbright Alumni Association, International House of Japan M:S AH P$B
Association for Women in Science [AWIS], Graduate Women in Science
W1B8|,Y&D*PEuropean Association for Social Studies of Science and Technology [EASSST], History of Science Society [HSS], National Association for Science, Technology & Society, Society for History of Technology [SHOT], Society for Literature and Society [SLS], Society for Social Studies of Science [4S], West Coast History of Science Society
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\ S:^,H,w SINVITED PRESENTATIONS and participation in meetings of disciplinary societies and university departments in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, history, international relations, Japan studies, physics, science & technology studies, science education, and women's studies: )e)A {2R7V!S.N @8J(^9E

m I q2t p A9c d_ \ANTHROPOLOGY [see also 6 jointly sponsored events] J g;\8R2E1M5{8z ^ Y Y
Workshop on ‘Studying Up’ in Multi-sited Ethnographies, UC Berkeley, February 2004 Z"O-L-J:g
Conference on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing, Keynote Speaker, 6/98 [meeting postponed] K0X F"A w4C b b
Anthropology Department, UCLA, February 1997
K B P f z f A"M qAnthropology Department, Stanford University, February 1997 A v F:E ^6v"g U$J R
Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley, October 1995
@)X!J6w8P Y U \Workshop on Cyborg Anthropology, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 10/93 L V/D |,S a1R } D(C W,U
Anthropology Department, Soai University, Osaka, Japan May 1991
Kq*P#d"z ` D9~ TSymposium on Anthropology of Science & Scientists, American Association for the Advancementof Science, Washington DC, February 1991 5N:N2f3a N K8x ]2A3Q
Anthropology Department, University of California at San Diego, May 1990
x d b2g0J6u X:U W;MAnthropology Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, January 1990
z6Y j){ W Z[ X*XAnthropology Department, University of California at San Diego, June ** E0P/D(v Q l:]2] S o
Anthropology Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, February 1985 3h Cp @ O&I r
Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley, March 1984 }!e @/U-l:] Y(S
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American Anthropological Association, annual meetings, 2004, 1996, 1994-1990, 1985; 1983-2 "o!}a N e v
American Ethnological Society, annual meetings, 1985-4 J N E B0w P
American Folklore Society, annual meeting, 1983
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HISTORY [see also 6 jointly sponsored events] 4L P%H Q&B3h z
History of Internationalization of Science, Public Lecture, Yamaha Hall, Tokyo January 2004 r1b&L1]8S V
Symposium on Internationalization of Japanese Science, Sokendai [Graduate University for Advanced Study, Hayama, Japan, January 2004
x H9B6H d yTwo lectures, Archives workshop at KEK, July 2003 l-Z e _ q r9f
Symposium on East Asian History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Sept 2003 0l k!w q u%i)v s
Symposium on Pedagogy in Physics, MIT, 2002 0l K(` Z4]%W3f
History of Science Program, Princeton University, December 1998
:r s t }4J#@ } O tWorkshop on The Mobility of Knowledge: Local Science in World Contexts
O1Y;f9}4G qCenter for Science, Technology, and Society, Kanagawa University, Japan, September 1997
S d U \ l W2J tConference on Authorship in Science, Harvard University, March 1997
h J5k p { _ B2}2rHistory and Philosophy of Science Program, University of Manchester, England, January 1996
6b#s+L Y ],E&eq W LWorkshop on Technology as Skilled Practice: Approaches from Anthropology, History, and Psychology, University of Manchester, England, January 1996
'y&l `'t7[ G4]-t%VTechnology Studies and Communication Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden, June 1995
j Z m e,r q'q k k'oCenter for Technology and Culture, University of Olso, Norway, September 1993 e I8g u f"m
History of Science Program, Harvard University, October 1992
Q1V)d A i g d&JConference on Choreographing History, sponsored by University of California Humanities Research Institute, held at UC Riverside, February 1992 :B r"D l c,K(o
Plenary Session on "The Laboratory and the Workplace," Conference on Critical Problems in the History of Science and the History of Technology (sponsored by NSF), held concurrently with the joint annual meetings of the History of Science Society and Society for the History of Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, October-November 1991
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5G b l*` D w%dCenter for the Cultural History of Science and Techonology, UCLA, November 1990
p ]3R e _:EZ x r6V,\Workshop on Tech-Know: Places of Knowledge, Their Technologies, and Economies, Center for Cultural History of Science and Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, December **
[+T1a*{ Y:D9I g:PWorkshop on Current Trends in the History of Science, Brandeis University, MA, June ** t ? \)n9w
Workshop on the History of Big Science, Program in the History of Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, August 1988
K { _8j-y.rHistory of Science, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, December 1985 3a V }3C s X-u Z
History of Science Program, University of Pennsylvania, November 1985
j1f b7C m o [ @ mJoint Mid-Atlantic Seminar on the History of the Physical Sciences, Princeton University, 4/85
8R r6w4c$j p*EHistory and Philosophy of the Twentieth Century Sciences Colloquium, Harvard University, 12/83 8R y z { E;_
Society for the History of Technology, 1997, 1995; 1992
_8J e\#tHistory of Science Society, Annual Meeting, discussant, New Orleans, October 1994 T5c)T4l q ? n G
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993 [in absentia]
P)Q ? N h'P s r8]0wHistory of Science in East Asia, Kansai Science City, Japan, August 1993 L.{;b"@7K }%u3^ Y e q
West Coast History of Science Society, Morro Bay, California, April 1990
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HUMANITIES/ CULTURAL STUDIES [see also 1 jointly sponsored event]
\1c m ^ \ Y*w I t5SSymposium on Metahistory, Center for Cultural Studies, Humanities Division, UCSC, April 2004 3A A6B8g9} D
EU workshop on culture in STS studies, Norway, September 2003
s(w v y8u m }Workshop on Machines, Agency, and Desire, sponsored by Copenhagen, Keele, and Oslo Universities, Oslo, Norway, June 1997 [in absentia]
M7m M'{ k M%J{:kHumanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, June 1996 G1b }(f A X
Center for Cultural and Literary Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 1995
9x,J R K*s4O#wCenter for Cultural Studies, Graduate Center of the City College of New York, New York City, 5/94 4@ M&H,O4G
Conference on Located Knowledges, Humanities Research Institute, UCLA, April 1993 G"b;?8l J B T
Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, March, 1993
z q'FM.bPlenary Speaker, Science and Literature Society, Annual Meeting, November 1995
X%u ^ B j,jfdLos Angeles, California
L!Y&[ B/V)i9W e [ WInternational Roundtable on Representation, CNRS, Paris, France, June 1985 F J&J,~6B w6o ] X
Humanities Program, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, January 1985 l y P E'T N s Y c P
International Roundtable on Representations, Montreal, Canada, October 1983 .b }/F |'e c
Conference on Science, Technology, and Literature, Long Island University, NY, February 1983 Q*? E4s | y/E"a5Z.n5`
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS [see also 1 jointly sponsored event]
;I T%V!C UProgram in International Relations, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 1996 ?*b f:C.T/O V _
Center for International Studies, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, July 1993
H d i7n E.A z;aWorkshop on "The Comparative Political Economy of Science: Scientists and the State," International Studies and Overseas Programs, University of California at Los Angeles, January 1990
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JAPAN STUDIES and Asian Studies [see also physics, STS, and women’s studies] v&f ? G O T,E n
Symposium on East Asian History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins, Sept 2003
(y ^ K$H2n t x7X mSocial Science Research Council Workshop on Apprenticeship Education in Japan, University of Pittsburgh, April 1993 @ O#X W } H i ] x
Workshop on Representation of Otherness: Japan and the United States, University of California at Irvine, May 1990 #{ \ q Z w)?-q V'O e;^
Conference on Representations of the Other: Japan and the United States, University of California o ^/_)S8l0k8o n o T9j.T
at San Diego, May ** I J n*^ W V%V ]9G
Workshop on Notions of the Self in Asia, East-West Center, University of Hawaii, January **
y2D6A T+X ~ ~ dNortheast Asia Forum on Japan-United States Policy, Stanford University, January 1987
v;~ g m!qInter-University Seminar House, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, October 1986 -O R+?0~%k7o p
Project on the United States' Study of Education in Japan, National Institute of Education, Washington, DC, December 1985
Q2G n*P'E t ` e:Y7y { rSSRC-Japanese Government Workshop on "Japan, the United States, and the World, 1950-1980," University of Hawaii, January 1984 x,N|4{ k }/@2C N O"J
Japan Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 1983
T%E+R J E*s K#lCenter for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1983 d N5Q k&i U

t n ~+E r RAssociation for Asian Studies, annual meeting, 2004, 1999; 1994; 1991 (in absentia) B u0B Y Z H T V |#Y
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JOINTLY SPONSORED EVENTS
/H/{'U S.k u E"A l V&[History of Science Program and Anthropology Department, Stanford University, February 1993
.| q E u o$d xkPhilosophy Department, Physics Department, & Women's Studies, De Pauw University, October 1992
7i!Q,b8f"\.eScience Literacy Program & Anthropology Department, Colby College, Maine, September1990
.\,F` _2S*iPhysics Department, Anthropology Department, & Women's Studies Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, April 1990
+h4r;D.| E,rEnglish Department, Claremont Graduate School; Women's Studies Program, Pomona College; and History of Science Program, Pitzer College, California, March 1990
w+r G5}2m h M V `.QCenter for Cultural History of Science and Technology and Center for the Study of Women, University of California at Los Angeles, December **
e H'S:`1a9XPembroke Center for Women's Studies and the Institute for International Relations, Brown University, Providence, RI, November ** )V;D Q#B x7j V4g
Anthropology Department, Physics Department, Program in the History of Science, and Program in Women's Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October ** 7@ o8Q l z P ~
Sociology and Anthropology Department, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England, July 1985
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MANAGEMENT STUDIES
k S G S5s*CWorkshop participant and speaker, Knowledge and Organizations Group, MIT/UCI, March 2004 p9z!b+m K A
Workshop participant and speaker, Knowledge and Organizations Group, MIT/UCI, June, 2003
4W b H&A3S2gWorkshop on Work Practices and Technologies, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, June 1999
&I3C"E3` y o%E GSeminar on Organizations and Institutions, sponsored by National Academy of Sciences, School of Administration, University of California, Irvine, August 1996 m { l:`/Y J
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, October 1994
[ k"B#H6\ V fWorkshop on Collaborative Learning and Work, Apple Computer Co., Cupertino, California, February 1992
v S X T N(V9j$TPanel on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work in Science, Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Los Angeles, October 1990 T c4P%j Y b P
Consortium for Computer Supported Cooperative Work among Scientists, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, June1990 1|-|7o4q T ~ C ~
Association for Computing Machinery (SIGCHI) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 4/85
F/` ^4v l4h |Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, California, August 1984
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f&?;e N.J KOTHER DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS [see also 2 jointly sponsored events] 9R*A)]7d K,E V
Communications Department, University of California at San Diego, April 1990
9a$d:m:~*o,^L pSociology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, October **
O H9r&I3J v&~ Z pInstitute of International Education, Houston, Texas, ** & 1988 0N$M `!` B J V E g
Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine, January 1985 G/p$x X \ L Q!{
Sociology Department, University of Bielefeld, West Germany, November 1984 ~3b'g9N*e G ?
Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz, September 1983 g C4r } k1k+H:\
Division for Study and Research in Education, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 1982
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Seminar on Family Systems, Children's Health Council, Stanford, California, 1992 /U2TQ+g5m*v i h/?
Seminar in Psychiatry, Health Services, MIT, 1984 &S%f)J)W9E
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American Philosophical Association, 1992
9A f0m f v I Y X/S zAmerican Philosophical Association, Western Meeting, 1991, 1999 n \7Q R(h ?#? _
Society for Philosophy of Technology, 1995
Y F i,H9_1[;C#|9t({Society for Women in Philosophy, annual meeting, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, 5/94 | ? D6d }*@"T.~;V$I9N
Workshop on "Social Dimensions of Science," Philosophy Department, University of Notre Dame, P'Y2] ~ Z.~
South Bend, Indiana, October ** g e P2R ` P H ~ m `
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PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING [see also 4 jointly sponsored events]
*E U7C B h ~2y F1u pKEK, National High Energy Physics Accelerator Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, April 2003
X ^5? ` o j L;U eKEK, National High Energy Physics Accelerator Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, April 1998
6V%` Ty J dKEK, National High Energy Physics Accelerator Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, February 1998 ,i y h6I&\4X
Physics Department, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 1997 9v A `9V i
Physics Department, Ohio State University, April 1997
o ] h.m"K ^)r m6R'jFaculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1993 x b y g \ M L
Scientia Lecture, Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 1993
$Y `1]4w c R9u a SFermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, January 1993 p%`r'i+w b)X:\ O
International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
"] ]9L/z u5z [ a JJune 1992
+o;b a a D9X.M P7@Physics Department, KEK National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Japan, June 1991 'X2u j2f P W U4J v s
National Symposium of Council on Undergraduate Research in Science (CUR), Trinity College, San Antonio, Texas, June 1990 | v p7M!y w G _*n,l c
Physics Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, February 1988
%U q \ q:n,h I9u/t$WPanel Member, Scientia Symposium for the Supercollider, Rice University, January 1988 d U#{+H S |)e |
Faculty of Engineering, Toyo University, Tokyo Campus, Japan, May 1987
$_ w F c*g/` EcEnergy and Resources Group (ERG), University of California at Berkeley, February 1987
e {"f b-X W6Q L DInstitute of Physics, Toyo University, Kawagoe Campus, Saitama, Japan, November 1986 :w w H i b m'J
Department of Physics, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, November 1986 t.y u d4p s
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International Conference on Instrumentation for Colliding Beams, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California, February 1982 [.H$q T;K.p|

:w v W"~/k G W M)[ bINTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY STUDIES @7?"J2Y G v J
Digital Cultures Seminar, USC, March 2004
B8O5] `8_ O V F ZEuropean Graduate Program on Science, and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, September 2003 |1E+Q D S
Program on Science, Technology, and Society, University of Tokyo, March 1998 -C G${%d u.@5r#S m
International Conference on Science, Technology, and Society, Japan, March 1998, panel organizer :U4A e b P
Workshop on Machines, Agency, and Desire, sponsored by Copenhagen, Keele, and Oslo Universities, Oslo, Norway, June 1997 [in absentia] %|:P4r f x)L I a Q
European Graduate Program on Gender, Science, and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, May 1997 1Q F } i-})m
Program on Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 1995
-p d:N$Q g`,n m n#CWorkshop on Retheorizing Science Studies, Trondheim University, Norway, May 1995 -v R P k A z3l K
Dean's Lecture, Science, Technology & Society Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, ~ f N&T v O
NY, September 1993
5B @:G8^ \;I i*wProgram in Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 1993
'_ [&T3a tSymposium on Future Directions for Interdisciplinary Science Studies, American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 1992
3N:f `7M7l q(^Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, February 1992 )v E [4u;d
Science Studies Program, University of California at San Diego, March 1990
#S!{.~/^ t GProgram on Cross-Cultural Studies in Science and Technology, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, February 1988 0B j O ^ _7j'U
Discussant for Plenary Speaker Evelyn Fox Keller, Annual Meeting, Society for the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Worcester, MA, November 1987 A,^ ] ~3n c o z
Science and Technology Studies, Technische Hogeschool, Twente, Netherlands, June 1985
%_ v H'U.i r kEcole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris, France, June 1985 w t6W P)T I;c)T | p:T,[
Program in Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1983
O.c1@1R E+aTremont Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, August 1983 | d ` W h r L!]
Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, March 1983
&P V-_0|6R9N G } h7N2rCollegiate Institute for Values and Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1983
.B*K E v#CCommunication in Scientific Research: Workshop on Participant/Observer Studies of Scientific Research, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, September 1981
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&S J4o o `.~European Association for Studies of Science and Technology annual meeting, 1996; 1984 K N/b H X4n a
Society for Social Studies of Science, 2001-2003, 1996-1994; 1990; 1987; 1984-3 R U ] g C!e;{#o%b
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VISUAL STUDIES
(W4} | V } xWorkshop on Visual Representation in Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 4/94
!w#?!e } _ GDiscussant, Conference on Photography and the Photographic, University of California at Riverside, April 1994 S i | ^(F S
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Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Gulf Coast Chapter, Houston, Texas, February 1993
q S j g t%TWomen in Mathematics Association, Rice University, Houston, Texas, December 1992 a,\0j4M-Q;U
Women's Interchange, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California, June 1992 &v.y e e A @2@ @+y r
Society for Japanese Women Scientists Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 1991 `8w/k W2h5} ?'Q X:C
Women's Caucus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA, November ** R&h Z*x5~6t U&j2@
Harvard Medical Area Commission on the Status of Women, Boston, MA, April 1985 z C#U3y b!e `;E S
Women in Science Lecture Series, Radcliffe College and Harvard University, MA, November 1984
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Women's Studies Annual Conference, Keynote Address, University of Texas at Austin, 1/2000 sm#^ @ r B;K t
European Graduate Program on Gender, Science, and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 5/1997 ~ q K!E c4y:@0L
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U n ] o E4F-A hWomen's Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, March 1997 v i*{&nQ-k s6@ |
Program in Women's Studies, Rice University, Houston, Texas, February 1996
%o!q E6e1? X tColloquium on Re/Visioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Studies Perspectives, University of California, San Francisco, October 1995
y x F/e p'K U4f d-aWorkshop on Trying Transformations in Gender, Science, and Technology Studies,
M s [7W:w DUniversity of Lulea, Sweden, August 1995 8U c N Qd [ k
Workshop on Women and Gender in Science, University of Minnesota, May 1995
Z ?L.u/_6? @"s zFairchild Symposium on Gender, Culture, and Science, North Carolina State University, February1995
v j } {)@ y2^ \Women's Studies, Duke University, February 1995
*X Q K c x.f YWomen's Studies, University of North Carolina, February 1995
:L L$D"_ e aWorkshop on "Pedagogy: the Question of the Personal," Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April 1993
d;m1y A h.K ] @Z EWorkshop on Gender and Science, University of Wyoming, March 1993 ~$O5A W9P9p1x O b
Spaulding Lecture, Women's Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, California, February 1993
+j*r9^ h+U yWomen's Studies, Duke University, September 1992
r2H B ~*Z Women's Studies, Occidental College, California, May 1992 0c W,v T N/y._ n r5q
Luce Seminar on Gender & Science, Five College Women's Studies Center, Mt. Holyoke, MA, 10/91 o+T i6C D r }
Pugh Workshop on Gender and Science, Pomona College, California, September 1991 6M8k'm ^2~ k)F+O
Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, June 1991
u e3H I B)m2|1e8lInternational Feminists of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 1991 $\;h1P7l j4X U'X7l o
Women's Studies Research Program, University of Texas at Austin, December ** 0h P4y#\;v v P c v x
Women's Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, September ** d O C F;Q g
International Feminist Association of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 1987
$? _ f z n d4V%T7~(Z5bMellon Seminar at the Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, MA, Oct. 1984 i { q:d Q j8n @$c,{
Women and Science Lecture Series, Brandeis University, October 1984
{ t j X ? t zGender and Science Lecture Series, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 1984
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Conference on Women and Gender in Science, University of Minnesota, May 1995
)N'f&y K N M CConference on Sex/Gender in Techno-Science Worlds, University of Melbourne, Australia, 6/93 0l:i x e&i8M
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UNDERGRADUATE theses research I have advised include the following topics: comparative ethnographic study of engineering workplace culture in Japan and the US, statistical study of political participation among American scientists; gender analysis of sociobiology; visual ethnography of MIT laboratories; oral history of elderly women in one family in China; ethnography of a physics group at MIT; science and colonialism in South Africa; appropriate technology as a social movement; science and new age movements in Houston; gender and epistemology in philosophy; science education in Los Angeles; women in the history of Santa Monica Airport. +N8A o+x$q7O c
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I am very pleased that three people who once did undergraduate research projects with me are now faculty in the history and anthropology of science, technology, and medicine: Prof. Gabrielle Hecht, Michigan; Prof. Joseph Dumit, MIT; Prof. Atsushi Akera, RPI .
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Q5E3i6_ |#I W V xPaperback edition published in 1992 and reprinted in 1995. [Chinese translation, 2003.] Pp. 126 &145-156, titled "Contrasts between Japan and the United States," reprinted in The 'Racial' Economy of Science, ed. by Sandra Harding (Indiana University Press, 1993; pp. 74-105 reprinted in The Science Studies Reader, ed. by Mario Biagioli (Routledge, 1999). Z1F)_"J j S m j"B

5t A R6x6?!g j F z“Generating High Energy Physics in Japan: Moral imperatives of a Future Pluperfect,” in Training Scientists, Crafting Science: Putting Pedagogy on the Map for Science Studies, edited by David Kaiser [Chicago, summer 2004] {)O1_ k)S P(V

~ { w3s h"\9b A u,t i“Keizu to Nendaiki: ** History in Tsukuba Science City,” Sociology of Science in the New Millenium, edited by Jesus A. Valero Matas [Cambridge, June 2004] ;O t4H N"g Z
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"How Modern Became Retro: an historical political economy of knowledge," for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, edited by Sharon Traweek and Roddey Reid [Rutledge Press, 2000] 3V u c Q e f2Q(C

"c ` f(E n F T r a8kCultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, jointly edited with Roddey Reid [Rutledge, 2000]
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+s _9D D Z pT w k"Warning Signs: Acting on Images," in Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing: Feminist, Cultural, and Technoscience Perspectives, edited by Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen (Routledge, 99)
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"Iconic Devices: Toward An Ethnography of Physics Images," in Cyborgs and Citadels, edited by Gary Downey and Joseph Dumit (School of American Research Series, University of Washington Press, 1998) Z z3`-J A E

,T |;O K A {)t1@"Unity, Dyads, Triads, Quads, and Complexity: Cultural Choreographies of Science" in a special issue of Social Text edited by Stanley Aronowitz and Andrew Ross (Winter 1996) [reprinted in The Science Wars, edited by Aronowitz and Ross for Duke Univ. Press, 1997] C9m R g5\
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t/q t4d J"Kokusaika, Gaiatsu, and Bachigai: Japanese Physicists' Strategies for Moving into the International Political Economy of Science," Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge, edited by Laura Nader (Routledge, 1996), pp. 174-197. 0p U&g Z2V h };] f e,{(|
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"Bachigai [out of place] in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan," in Technoscientific Imaginaries (Late Editions, vol. II) edited by George Marcus (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
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"When Eliza Doolittle studies 'enry 'iggins," Technoscience, Power, and Cyberculture: Implications and Strategies, edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Marinsons, Michael Menser, and Jennifer Rich (Routledge, 1996) [sections published in Found Object, special issue on "Technoscience/ Cyberculture" (Issue 5, Spring 1995)]
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)V e*^5c U t n B"Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists," Choreographing History, edited by Susan Foster (Indiana University Press, 1995) [reprinted, in Portuguese, in Forum Danca Revista (No.3/4, ano IV, Janeiro 1994, pp. 31-42). s Z P3i%b F o l6G1o l a
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Located Knowledges at the Intersection of Cultural, Gender, and Social Studies of Science and Technology, special issue of Configurations, coedited with Mario Biagioli and Roddey Reid (Winter 1994) 0x F F e ]!i.I/A/A M

Y0Q1| o8] z1p"An Introduction to Cultural, Gender, and Social Studies of Science and Technology," Journal of Culture,Medicine, and Psychiatry, special issue on "Biopolitics: The Anthropology of the New Genetics Immunology, edited by Deborah Heath and Paul Rabinow (1993: vol 17, pp 3-25)
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"An Essay on Gender, Science, and Technology," Bulletin of the Institute for Women's Studies, Ochanomizu Women's University, Japan [in Japanese and English] (New Series No. 5, 1991) [published 1993] 4i M R U ^ c [
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"Border Crossings: Narrative Strategies in Science Studies and Among High Energy Physicists at Tsukuba Science City, Japan," in Science as Practice and Culture, edited by Andy Pickering (University of Chicago Press, 1992; pp. 429-465) e I9I%V9S C
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"Big Science as Colonialist Discourse: Regional Differences in Japanese High Energy Physics," in
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s ?%p ^.[9`-Y C j6w"An Anthropologist Among the Physicists at Tsukuba Science City, Japan," Chuokoron (a Japanese magazine of commentary on public policy issues), January 1987, pp. 145-153 (in Japanese) P,e I L U k J

D8H$R;o D$W"i g"Discovering Machines: Nature in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction," in ** Time: Anthropologies of Time in Science and High Technology Organizations, edited by Frank
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Dubinskas (Temple University Press, 1987), 66p. [Expands and revises article below.]
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"Nature in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction: The Reproduction of Nature and Physicists in the High Energy Physics Community," in Les Savoirs dans les Pratiques Quotidiennes: ^,W c q0g
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Recherches sur les Representations, edited by Claire Belisle and Bernard Schiele (Paris: Editions du CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1985), 25p.
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"Closer to the Ground: A Reinterpretation of Walbiri Iconography," Man (sic) 19 (1984), pp.15-30 (with Frank Dubinskas)
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p bDJ/{ e6vJapanese Government Senior Scientist Grant for Research in Japan [used as Visiting Researcher, KEK National High Energy Physics Accelerator Organization] 1991, 1993-94, 1997-98 [6 months declined for health reasons]fall; summer 1999, winter 2000, 2001-02, summer 2003
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Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University, 1992-1993
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Reynal Guillen, History of Science, UCLA, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class at Los Alamos
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Jeannie Cooper, American Studies, Boston Univ, Oral History of Mill Workers in Lawrence, MA 0F0a i9A L8l w-~ U
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Patrick Malloy, History, UCLA, German Colonial Medicine in East Africa
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Shirley Lim, American History, UCLA, Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
&]2t"s _4? Z [ } ^Lisa Marovich, American History, UCLA, Women's Inventive Activities during War Eras /` D6s m!h d }-a
Patricia Moore, History, UCLA, 19th and 20th Century American Women Botanists 'e X W J c.Z c _
Kathleen Nielsen, History of Science, UCLA, Gendered Bodies in American and Chinese Martial Arts
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Maureen Silos, PhD 98, Education, UCLA: Comparative Higher Education in the Social Sciences 8J'Y [ S&[ N t0r'd-O
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李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:24
Beamtimes and Lifetimes| v1T#E&i h P$k
[url]http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/qafm7lq41[/url]
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:35
我下下来了 是pdf。
十年的约定 发表于 2010-1-3 16:38
大湿,这是哪国鸟语::z8 ?看不懂指示
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:39

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俄文
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 16:46
::z8 干吗帖她的CV,我知道她的CV。。。。。
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W a J Q0` Iebookee上确实有电子书
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:50

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很牛,而且眼镜也很有风格
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 16:55
还有一个爱丁堡大学的社会人类学家也研究过geek的物理学人们::11
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 16:56
所以说物理学家会被人类学家鄙视的,不就是一群研究对象么,和小白鼠差不多::11
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:56

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::14 给个链接::11
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 16:57

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有道理::z2
十年的约定 发表于 2010-1-3 16:59
两大牛在聊天,。。。。不知所云::11 ::11
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 17:08
::z8 想不起名字了,更想不起链接了,你查关于scientifical anthropology/sociology debate,有很多关于物理学者们的人类学/社会学研究,群殴和单挑的场面相当壮观
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 17:11
::z2 去把标题改了,物理学家是最有理由鄙视其他学科人但是却很难被其他学科的人鄙视的(人类学除外)::16
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 17:11

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好::11
findingedison 发表于 2010-1-3 17:32
占座。
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 17:33
人类学最好玩了,打遍天下无敌手,发现把其他学科都K了一遍,物理化学全不在话下,哲学?小意思,为特更斯坦不都投奔人类学大门了么,康德还写了一本实用人类学,试图染指人类学领域,最后发现摆不平,还是数他的火柴棍去了,还有什么难度的学科?数学?更是小菜一碟,搞定全人类的数学观,宇宙观和哲学观,正是人类学所擅长的。没有对手了怎么办,自己K自己人,Friedman 单挑 Mead吖,Chagnon被围攻吖,Kuper据说还收到了死亡威胁信Orz 真是爽到家了
蓝涵倩影 发表于 2010-1-3 17:43
::11 ::11
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 17:48

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::z4 火锅阿姨我葱白你
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 17:53

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免礼平身,朕做饭去了,今天炒青椒肉丝,还有番茄肉丸汤::11
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 17:54

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::z4
李敖有话说 发表于 2010-1-3 18:02

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[url]http://www.douban.com/doulist/225920/[/url]
I_am_Vest 发表于 2010-1-3 18:25
anthropology曾经把我学的想死
clm0609 发表于 2010-1-3 18:27
此帖唯有马克之。。。。。。。。。。
X z Y3~2d!g O葱白火锅姐姐啊::z4
clm0609 发表于 2010-1-3 18:27

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人类学学的啥? ::z8
12345beckham 发表于 2010-1-3 21:01
[quote]原帖由 [i]I_am_Vest[/i] 于 2010-1-3 18:25 发表 [url=http://e.taisha.org/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=16495950&ptid=1435285][img]http://e.taisha.org/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
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为什么?:funk: 你是选了ANT101的课还是本科?
I_am_Vest 发表于 2010-1-3 21:44

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课而已 V)E M)J y e&Z e"d
那也把我学疯了,_ u'w P z1W)f
考古学的部分太难背了
李敖有话说 发表于 2012-8-26 15:37
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kouhoutei 发表于 2012-8-26 16:23
李大湿回来了::11

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