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Neckties or not, and a quick fix

MAY 01, 2020

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.4465

Sidney Perkowitz

I appreciate Brian Kraus’s review of my book Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties: When Science Meets Culture (Physics Today, March 2020, page 52 ). The photo spread of diverse physicists mostly not wearing ties underlines a point I made in the book: More than ever, we physicists look different from each other and dress the way we want to. However, I must correct an error Kraus made when he wrote that I retired from academia in 1990. As I stated in my book’s introduction (page xi), I continued academic research and teaching until 2011, when I retired as Charles Howard Candler Emeritus Professor of Physics after 42 years at Emory University.

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Sidney Perkowitz. (physp@emory.edu) Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Volume 73, Number 5

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