A physicist I would honestly love to watch a movie about is John Bardeen who got two Nobel prizes but had such an uninteresting personal life that Wikipedia mentions his preference for toasted hamburger buns
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Replying to @bernhardsson
Yep. Currently reading "The Idea Factory" by Gertner about Bell Labs and US Innovation. Bardeen, Shockley, Brattian, Shannon, ... but (odd to both you and me) no mention of later years and Kernighan, Ritchie, Stroustrup, Chambers, ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Id…

Jul 23, 2023 · 11:34 PM UTC

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