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Joan Baez’s dad, his uncle, gave him the physics book that he wrote. Hopefully, someday when we see Joan Baez represented in movies, we’ll see her physicist f
by melling 8y ago
Joan Baez’s dad, his uncle, gave him the physics book that he wrote.
Hopefully, someday when we see Joan Baez represented in movies, we’ll see her physicist father, perhaps giving a physics book to his 8 year old nephew.
- chmaynard 8y agoIn 1968, I enjoyed taking a physics course at Harvard Summer School that was taught by Dr. Albert Baez. He had a home in Cambridge and graciously invited the entire class over for a party after the course ended. The highlight of the evening was an impromptu performance by his daughter Joan.
- dhimes 8y agoHe was also the crew-cut guy running demos in film loops I saw in school when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s.
- johncarlosbaez 8y agoCool! It sounds fun. Back then she used to sing at the so-called Nameless Coffeehouse in Harvard. Unfortunately I was 7 years old in 1968, so I missed all this.
- agumonkey 8y agooh I never realized they were siblings .. https://ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/HomePage https://ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/HomePage
- selimthegrim 8y agoHe’s written several. Me and my grad student colleagues found “Gauge fields, knots and gravity” to be very accessible
- johncarlosbaez 8y agoI wrote "Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity", but we were talking about my uncle, who wrote "The New College Physics: a Spiral Approach".
- selimthegrim 8y agoOh sorry, I thought they were talking about you too