{"id":977,"date":"2006-09-24T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/09\/24\/who-got-feynmans-office\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T13:47:05","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T18:47:05","slug":"who-got-feynmans-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/who-got-feynmans-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Got Feynman&#8217;s Office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, string theorist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Schwarz\">John Schwarz<\/a> now occupies Richard Feynman&#8217;s old office at Caltech.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>I<\/em> got Feynman&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p><img class='center' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/fdesk.jpg' alt='Feynman&#039;s Desk' \/><\/p>\n<p>Caltech has a room devoted to Feynman memorabilia, and they really want this desk.  (Feynman-worship is quite the industry here; the bookstore has a section labeled &#8220;Feynman&#8221; in the same way an ordinary bookstore would have sections labeled &#8220;Physics&#8221; or &#8220;Women&#8217;s Studies.&#8221;)  But Helen Tuck, who was Feynman&#8217;s secretary and still occasionally visits, insists that the desk be used by a working physicist.  My impression is that the desk is given to the most senior person in the theory group who is not sufficiently senior to get all brand-new fancy furniture; at the moment, that person is I.  (In the background, one can discern the winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/02\/20\/the-ultimate-showdown\/\">ultimate showdown<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I looked for little diagrams carved into the wood, but haven&#8217;t found any yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, string theorist John Schwarz now occupies Richard Feynman&#8217;s old office at Caltech. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}