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Item: A Brief History of Time, by the British physicist Stephen Hawking, which appeared in 1988, added 410,000 sales last year to pass 1 million overall...
What this says to the first-year student is: don't major in physics unless you knew you wanted to be a physicist at age 12. The grade distributions have two peaks: one for the population of students new to the material and another for the "ringers." Many professors will readily acknowledge that this is the explanation for such grade distributions, but the process of weeding out continues...
...myth of genius says that if you're smart enough to be a physicist, you don't need to be taught. Too many students believe this--some relish the masochism, others are too cowered to admit their difficulties and so never complain. I hope this article encourages other to complain or at least not to take the department personally...
...Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach attempted to put some of Sakharov's accomplishments in perspective. He compared Sakharov to the biblical Moses and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sakharov was "unique in world history as a great scientist, humanitarian, developer of the atom bomb, and human being," Fesbach said...
...balding, bespectacled German-born physicist named Klaus Fuchs walked into London's War Office and confessed to being a spy. For seven years, from 1942 to 1949, Fuchs had systematically funneled high-level secrets about U.S. and British nuclear-weapons research to the U.S.S.R., including plans for the yet unfinished hydrogen bomb...