Talk:Roy J. Glauber
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For the past ten years, Roy has been a vital participant in the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. By spontaneous tradition, the Ig audience throws paper airplanes at the stage during the entire ceremony (and the people on stage waft some of them right back). The airplanes accumulate so rapidly that it is necessary to have two people spend the entire ceremony sweeping them off. Harvard physics professor Roy Glauber has nobly, and stylishly, swept the stage for ten long years. Today, October 4, 2005, he was announced as the winner of a Nobel Physics Prize.
from http://improbable.typepad.com/improbable_research_whats/2005/10/sweeping_succes.html :-) bogdan | Talk 11:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
On the Ig Nobel page, it says that he is Keeper of the Mop as opposed to Broom, like is says on this page... Which is it?
Glauber was not awarded the Nobel prize for the "notion and mathematics of coherent states" as the article says, but for the mathematical description of optical coherence and the theory of photodetection. These are different subjects.--J S Lundeen 11:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nobel prize
Can someone knowledgeable please put more information about his nobel prize? As it currently stands, it's just mentioned as a footnote to his Ig Nobel duties. --Storkk 11:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Considerable controversy"?
I was surprised to find this recent and very one-sided addition to the article summary:
- However, there is considerable controversy regarding this award, as E. C. George Sudarshan was ignored. Also the Sudarshan representation, which Glauber renamed as the P-representation, was conveniently renamed the Sudarshan-Glauber representation, later the Glauber-Sudarshan representation, and now has become the Glauber representation. But what's in a name? Sudarshan's representation by any other name will smell as sweet.
It turns out that this "considerable controversy" (something I'd never heard about until today) has been publicly addressed by InsideHigherEd, Seed, and The Harvard Crimson. I'm not sure this belongs in Glauber's article--the complaint reflects actions by the Nobel Committee rather than any wrongdoing by Glauber. Experience with other controversies suggests, however, that removing this material will only result in its re-insertion by another partisan. Writing it up dispassionately seemed the best course. betsythedevine 12:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Two months later, somebody has removed the "controversy" section from Glauber's bio--probably the right decision. The mini-uproar seems to have died down without any echo--and it was never a Glauber controversy anyway, really a Sudarshan vs. Nobel Committee controversy. betsythedevine 13:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I'm happy to let it stay removed from both places. IMO, the fact that Sudarshan did major work in an area where a Nobel was awarded is notable. The fact that Sudarshan and a very few other people complained post-facto about the 2006 Nobel Prize isn't something I'd want in my bio, if I were Sudarshan. betsythedevine 19:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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