"Isidor Rabi, on a leave from in the early 1960s, came to Princeton as a visitor to its history department. On several occasions during that year, when the elevated conversation in the history department got to be too much for him, he would drop into my office to “talk physics.” We had already by that time developed a sage-rookie relationship. “What are you up to these days?” he would begin. But when I started to tell, he would cut me and all other theorists of my generation short as mere scribblers and launch into tales of the golden days of his generation, when giants trod the earth. So they had, I knew. After all, he got started in physics as quantum mechanics was being born. This put-down was conveyed with great good humor and I was not at all discomfited; indeed I relished the barbs and the tales."
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Sam Treiman
(May 27, 1925 – November 30, 1999) was an American , who coined the term "Standard Model" in particle physics. Known for the and the Callan-Treiman relation, he was elected in 1963 a Fellow of , elected in 1972 a Member of the United Stated , and awarded in 1985 the .
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