>leader in nuclear and hadronic physics in the 50s and 60s
>develops the “bootstrap program” of particle physics emphasizing “nuclear democracy”
>temporarily leaves his faculty position at berkeley because he refuses to take the “loyalty oath” against communism
>trains a huge boatload of the physicists that would define the future of physics including
>fritjof capra (author of “the Tao of Physics” which is a cornerstone of the new age quantum woo woo people) and Henry Stapp (icon of “quantum consciousness” woo woo crowd)
>John Schwarz and David Gross (who pioneered string theory and the latter was witten’s doctoral advisor)
>his research and he get left behind when the quark/parton model wins over “nuclear democracy”
>spends the rest of his career, up until the 2010s, publishing absolute crackpot shit
>example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.06021.pdf
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>develops the “bootstrap program” of particle physics emphasizing “nuclear democracy”
>temporarily leaves his faculty position at berkeley because he refuses to take the “loyalty oath” against communism
>trains a huge boatload of the physicists that would define the future of physics including
>fritjof capra (author of “the Tao of Physics” which is a cornerstone of the new age quantum woo woo people) and Henry Stapp (icon of “quantum consciousness” woo woo crowd)
>John Schwarz and David Gross (who pioneered string theory and the latter was witten’s doctoral advisor)
>his research and he get left behind when the quark/parton model wins over “nuclear democracy”
>spends the rest of his career, up until the 2010s, publishing absolute crackpot shit
>example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.06021.pdf
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