Thursday, December 10, 2009

Networking with Nobel laureates


My family continues to enjoy watching the TV show The Big Bang Theory. In the episode we watched tonight Sheldon unsuccessfully tried to give Nobel Laureate George Smoot (appearing as himself) a copy of his latest paper at a conference.

Non-equilibrium Green's functions also got a mention, probably the first (and only time) in the history of prime time TV!

1 comment:

  1. That's far and away the coolest suit jacket that I've ever seen.

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