From: "JACK L. URETSKY (C)1998; HEP DIVISION, ARGONNE NATIONAL LAB ARGONNE, IL 60439" <JLU@HEP.ANL.GOV>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:13:22 -0600
Hi Dan-
You ask:
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As for Ferris's credentials, I know they let him teach astronomy
at Berkeley, but does this make him an astronomer? After a quick
glance through Coming of Age, I can't find where he actually
explains the logic of element production in the early universe.
Does he?
dan
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See pp 270-282 where he does what I thought was a very
nice exposition of the nucleogenesis problem.
By the way, I thought that his character sketches were
incisive, accurate, and often very funny. I particularly enjoyed
his Gell-Mann quote (and I'm a Murray fan) "...I stood on the shoulders
of midgets."
Regards,
Jack
"I scored the next great triumph for science myself,
to wit, how the milk gets into the cow. Both of us
had marveled over that mystery a long time. We had
followed the cows around for years - that is, in the
daytime - but had never caught them drinking fluid of
that color."
Mark Twain, Extract from Eve's
Autobiography