Word: glashow
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...Glashow's memories of school are somewhat less sublime. "For 'physics' we had a choice between automotive and electrical engineering...My teacher was 'Mad-Dog' Tyson, who had a mania for keeping students quiet in the halls. He was also preoccupied with neat notebooks...
...Glashow is currently examining the ways in which quarks combine to form elementary particles, a subject he calls "chromodynamics," an allusion to the "color" attributed to quarks. Actually, neither "color", "flavor," "charm," nor "strangeness" has any correlation to the common-sense meaning of the words. They are just ways of labeling the various attributes of quarks and could just as easily be called "beauty," "faith" or "hope...
...Glashow attended the Bronx High School of Science, a public school for the scientifically gifted. He once claimed that the school made the single most important contribution to his education. He no longer holds this view, although he still calls his high school experiences "particularly significant...
...Glashow's closest friends in high school were Steven Weinberg, who is now Higgins Professor of Physics, and Gary Feinberg, now a professor of physics at Cornell. "We learned a great deal by talking and competing with one another. We'd ride the subway to school together. On the way, one of us would say something like 'Quantum mechanics isn't so hard--I learned it last night,' and then explain whatever he'd read," Glashow said. Not to be outdone, someone else would read about another topic that evening and explain it the following morning. "In this...
...Glashow recalls reading a good deal of science on his own, but does not describe himself as a prodigy. "I frankly don't remember knowing very much, although my teachers were impressed with how much I knew...