Kenneth G. Wilson: Renormalized After-Dinner Anecdotes
Paul Ginsparg
TL;DR
This paper presents a transcript of an after-dinner talk celebrating Kenneth G. Wilson's scientific legacy, sharing anecdotes, personal experiences, and multimedia content to highlight his impact on physics.
Contribution
It compiles personal anecdotes, career highlights, and multimedia materials to provide a comprehensive tribute to Kenneth G. Wilson's scientific influence.
Findings
Highlights Wilson's key contributions to physics
Includes personal stories from colleagues and students
Features multimedia content and interviews
Abstract
This is the transcript of the after-dinner talk I gave at the close of the 16 Nov 2013 symposium "Celebrating the Science of Kenneth Geddes Wilson" [1] at Cornell University (see Fig. 1 for the poster). The video of my talk is on-line [2], and this transcript is more or less verbatim, with the slides used included as figures. I've also annotated it with a few clarifying footnotes, and provided references to the source materials where available. The talk itself pulls together anecdotes from various points in his career, discusses my own graduate student experiences with him, and finishes with some video excerpts from an interview he did in 2010.
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