Man (to his boss): "Can we talk? I have a problem."
Boss: "Problem? No such thing, we call it an opportunity!"
Man: "Ok then, I have a serious drinking opportunity."
Frederick SeitzDied 2 Mar 2008 at age 96 (born 4 Jul 1911). American physicist who was a pioneer in condensed-matter physics investigating the physical and chemical properties of materials, and contributed to the fields of nuclear physics. He was Eugene Wigner's first doctoral student. Late in 1932, their joint work developed the cellular method of deriving solid-state wave functions. Use of this Wigner-Seitz method is now widespread. By the time he was 29 years old, Seitz’s book, The Modern Theory of Solids (1940) was his 24th publication. His treatment of all properties of all solids in terms of the electronic structure provided an outline distinguishing the field of solid state physics. Seitz was prominent in debating threats of nuclear weapon proliferation and global warming.« |
