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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Stefan Ram  wrote:   
      
   > john larkin  wrote or quoted:   
   > >Academics seem to enjoy ridiculing people that they see as wrong; you   
   > >can see that here. That's a bad environment for inventing stuff.   
   >   
   > |It is interesting to note that Bohr was an outspoken critic   
   > |of Einstein's light quantum (prior to 1924), that he   
   > |discouraged Dirac's work on the relativistic electron theory   
   > |(telling him, incorrectly, that Klein and Gordon had already   
   > |succeeded), that he opposed Pauli's introduction of the   
   > |neutrino. that he ridiculed Yukawa's theory of the meson, and   
   > |that he disparaged Feynman's approach to quantum electrodynamics.   
   > |   
   > footnote on page 23 in "Introduction to Elementary Particles" (1987)   
   > - David Griffiths (David J. Griffiths)   
      
   David Griffiths' footnotes are a source for David Griffiths,   
   not for Niels Bohr.   
      
   >   And when Dirac met Feynman, the first thing he said (as I remember   
   >   having read somewhere) was, "I have an equation; what do you have?".   
      
   Serious source?   
      
   >   It was also Paul Dirac (1902/1984) who told one young student   
   >   that his theory, "was not even wrong", and who AFAIK, thereby,   
   >   invented this expression!   
      
   This one is just plain wrong,   
      
   Jan   
      
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