In January 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published in Annalen der Physik the paper “Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem” (Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem) that announced what is now known as the Schrödinger equation. This
Introduction: The Wave of Change When I looked at the old photograph of my “happy family,” buried for years in a forgotten album (see illustration),
1. Give up the dream of Paradise on Earth. The sight of the rubble of Hiroshima killed the comforting narrative that the progress of science
As you all know, the theme of this year’s Colloquium is Student as Journeyman: Education, Formation, and Transformation. Mr. Powers asked me to talk on
No Historical Memory Yesterday, I watched the superb movie Oppenheimer, written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The movie is historically accurate, with one caveat. Nolan
The Starting Point Most of us are children of unhappy marriages, so we knew from suffering in early life, say by the age of seven