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As a DOE funded Graduate Student, I was selected to represent Rutgers University at the 54th "Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Graduate Students" in Lindau Germany. This was a unique honor and opportunity as the United States sent only 58 graduate students, all from different schools. The selection was competative and diverse, about 50% of the students in our group were physicists, the rest were chemisists, biologists, physical chemists, MD's, etc. This mixture provided for many stimulating conversations.
The following is a small collection of photographs that I took on this trip, there were so many that I had to greatly reduce the image quality to stay under disk quota, but I do have all the originals in very high quality. Please contact me if you wish to see a picture in greater resolution. I will also attempt to put brief tag-lines when I get the chance. Please enjoy !
Friday - June 25: Gathering in Washington DC
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A quote that I saw in the Air and Space Museum's Planetary Exhibit:
Dr. Watson recollecting an encounter with his colleague Sherlock Holmes...
"My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled around the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
'You appear to be astonished,' he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. 'Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.'
'To forget it!'
'But the Solar System!' I protested.
'What the deuce is it to me?' he interrupted impatiently: ' you say that we go round the sun. If we went around the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.' "
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A stock photo from Professional Photographers at the meeting, that I carried around and had as many Nobel Laureates as possible autograph:
Standing L to R: Prof Ivar Giaever*, Prof Robert Richardson*,Prof Werner Arber,Prof Nicolaas Bloembergen*, Our Hostess Countess Sonja Bernadotte, Prof Gerardus t'Hooft, Prof Klas von Klitzing*, Prof Brian Josephson*
Seater L to R: Prof Riccardo Giaconni*, Prof Leo Esaki, Prof Herbert Kroemer, Prof Douglass Osheroff, Prof Robert Huber, Prof Walter Kohn
* = Nobel Laureate Autographed this photo.
Missing from the photo, but in attendance at the meeting were Prof. Martinus Veltman, Prof Arno Penzias, Prof Masatoshi Koshiba,
This was a wonderful experience and I thank ORAU, the DOE, and the NSF for making the US delegation to this meeting possible. Roland Hirsch, Wayne Stevenson, Linda Holmes, and Sam Held did a great job in making this once in a lifetime experience perfet.
I direct viewers to the official Nobel Prize web site for more information on the prize. For more information on the ORAU particiption in the Lindau meeting please click on the following ling to Lindau2004 .
Finally, I would like to thank my many traveling companions - Each of you made the trip enjoyable and interesting. It was a delight to meet you all and I hope that our paths cross in the future. Best of luck in your studies.
For those interested, I have many more pictures, as well as those above, in high qualtity JPEG format. I hope to be able to provide any or all to you if you want - just send me an e-mail: koeth@physics.rutgers.edu
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