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Re: Physicist Who Coined the term 'Black Hole' dead at 96

It is a shame. Here's a guy who hung around with Bohr, Oppenheimer, and Heisenberg, and argued physics with Einstein. If that's not a definition of Giant, what is?

His quote at the end is all too accurate: Today, one is nerarly forced to know more and more about a smaller and smaller area of a subject*, precluding a generalist's wider view. It takes a bold person to declare themselves a generalist today, especially in academia.

Don

*Until you know everything about nothing, goes the old saw.


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