Famous physicists at your university

[Yasha]

Last week I was eating at the university when suddenly Gerard \'t Hooft came walking by, looking for a table to sit and eat his lunch. I couldn\'t believe what I was seeing! I thought he was somewhere in the US by now, but he\'s still at Utrecht University. How cool is that?! :cool:

So tell me about your encounters (<-- did I spell this right?) with famous physicists (at your university) :lol:

[editor]

Even G. \'t H still only puts his pants on one leg at a time. What did you chat about ??

[Yasha]

I didn\'t talk to him, I was kind of embaressed...he meets geniuses all day and who am I to go and talk to him? anyway, he was going to have lunch, I thought it would be impolite to disturb him at lunch time

[Yasha]

by the way Xerxes, have you come across Brian Greene at your university?

[Xerxes314]

Brian Greene <grumble mumble>. That bum never graded my 40-page cosmology essay. And he almost hit me with a door once. Tho I guess lots of people have done that...

Xerxes

[spirit_wasa]

I have read one of Brian Greenes books before... It was pretty cool it was what got me interested in science in the first place so don\'t bag him... LOL:P

[Edited on 10-2-2004 by spirit_wasa]

[gyani]

wow! you get to meet Brian Greene!!?? I\'m reading his book the Elegant Universe and it\'s very good!

[spirit_wasa]

Originally posted by gyani
I\'m reading his book the Elegant Universe and it\'s very good!

That is the book I have read too... I know what you mean it is a great book... It make physics exciting (which is very hard to do sometimes LOL:cool:)

[The Eternal Triangle]

The Elegant Universe was one of the things that really got me interested in physics too :)

My mom did her phd and later post-doc at the Rockefeller University in NYC (she\'s a microbiology person), and there were always Nobel prize winners around, though the vast majority were in biology-related fields. One of the guys involved in the discovery of DNA structure lived in our building. I can\'t remember his name...I\'ll have to ask my mom next time I see her.

No famous physicists around my uni though :(

[keebler_giant]

Watson or Crick?