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|content=More recently we talked about dark matter and black holes (2 yrs ago now) he was very excited about astro... b4 when i was a student he was just very encouraging and warm
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|content=One of the world’s greatest men has died. Most of you will have no idea who this is. I just don’t know how to bridge that gap yet to tell you what he did.
 
I was very close with his top collaborator. They were the Watson and Crick of mathematics to me. They rewrote my whole life.
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|content=Michael Atiyah OM FRS, President of the Royal Society 1990 -1995, died today. He was "a wonderful person who was a true internationalist and a fervent supporter for investing in talent – themes which resonate very clearly today." Read the full tribute https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/01/tribute-to-former-president-of-the-royal-society-sir-michael-atiyah/
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|timestamp=3:48 PM · Jan 12, 2019
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|content=There is a little known stone wall on Long Island. While flawed, it is a gift to all mankind that should be a pilgrimage site, as an understanding of the contents is nesessary to understand our world. Think of it as transcendent graffiti. Atiyah‘s spray-paint is everywhere here.
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|content=Imagine watery planets with holes and twists. Knotted donut planets  called base spaces. Crazy oceans called “Vector bundles” and “Principal bundles”.
 
He told us about how the twists and holes determine what waves must live on them and which cannot.
 
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|content=He helped direct Ed Witten and Graeme Segal to truly tell us what Quantum Field Theory really was beyond being a physical theory. These men took a grab bag of techniques developed for calculation and showed us that they were a mellifluous whole of geometry, topology and physics.
|timestamp=5:03 PM · Jan 12, 2019
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|content=If you want to know why I am so passionate about resisting the reign of terror against true scholarship it is this. Universities housed REAL scholarship beyond your wildest dreams. This kind of scholarship is not socially constructed. Almost no one can even do this level of work.
|timestamp=5:07 PM · Jan 12, 2019
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|content=Very sad news indeed - I knew Michael from when I was at @TrinCollCam he was brilliant, warm & amazing. Was at a conference where he was supposed to speak on thursday #higgscentre - he cancelled at the last minute....
|timestamp=5:47 PM · Jan 12, 2019
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|content=Wow. Did you guys ever talk shop? I have to admit I didn’t always get the most out of him 1 on 1. Singer and Bott were much clearer. Atiyah and Witten tended to tell you something related to whatever you asked but often not in a dialogue. More like a juke box of answers.
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|content=@mhartl It would upset (living) people to fill this out. Have to think about the ultimate goal helping this community.
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|content=One of my less popular theories is that the Nobel Prize serves to rewrite the history of science to make it palatable to institutions.
 
Einstein gets it for the wrong thing.</br>
Dirac &amp; Schodinger split one.</br>
Glashow/Weinberg/Salaam share.</br>
Mdme Wu passed over</br>
Vera Rubin -&gt; nothing
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|content=Dyson Gets nothing.</br>
Stuckelberg Gets nothing.</br>
Sudarshan gets nothing</br>
Feynman/Schwinger/Tomonaga diluted</br>
No rules broken for Witten
 
Etc
 
So the Nobel prize just completely rewrites physics history for outsiders. Similarly in Peace, Physiology and Medicine, and economics (cough).
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|content=In reality: </br>
Dirac was Einstein’s true peer.</br>
Gel-man is a genius but one who attracts credit from others. </br>
Yang deserves more than one. </br>
Mdme Wu and Dyson are inexplicable omissions.</br>
Sudarshan should have more than one and not zero.</br>
Etc..
 
The prize dilutes or buries our best.
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|content=In this theory we beat up our absolute top people to make it easier for the next group to live with the difference in impact &amp; contribution. We have many constraints we can point to for how it is awarded. But it ends up telling a less interesting less terrifying story for us all.
|timestamp=6:23 PM · Apr 6, 2019
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|content=FWIW, I’d be interested in reading a longer post on this subject, and I suspect I’m not alone.
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|content=Haskell Programmers.</br>
Topos theorists.</br>
King Crimson aficionados.</br>
1980s String Theorists.</br>
Pediatric Heart Surgeons.</br>
BJJ practioners.</br>
Oboe/Bassoon players.</br>
Fans of Eva Cassidy, Shackleton, Coltrane and Witten.
 
And all for understandable reasons.
Like the amazing French. 🇫🇷
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