On Dirac’s birthday, I would like to congratulate E.C. George Sudarshan, for being awarded the Dirac Medal! George is one of the most important physicists of the last 60 years, whose work includes the discovery of the weak interaction (one of the four forces of nature), the formulation of the diagonal representation of quantum optics (discovering the “quantum” in optics), the discovery of the quantum Zeno effect (a watched pot never boils), the theoretical formulation of the faster-than-light particles called tachyons (take that Einstein) and the development of the foundations of open quantum systems (my personal favorite, as I did my Ph.D. with him on this subject).
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John McClane: Yippie-ki-yay!
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