{"id":75600,"date":"2020-12-08T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/12\/08\/tuesday-night-nobel-birth\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T13:15:54","slug":"tuesday-night-nobel-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/12\/08\/tuesday-night-nobel-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; Nobel birth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Super super busy day\u2026 I had several phone meetings\u2026 The most fun was with my new friend Anna .. She\u2019s working on an article for Forbes magazine about remote collaboration\u2026Before she called\u2026 I noticed her last name was Esaki-Smith. As soon as we got on the phone I asked her if she was any relation to the famous physicist Leo Esaki . She started laughing\u2026 That is her dad\u2026 He still living and working in Japan at age 96\ufffc.<\/p>\n<p>Esaki Is the most famous IBM ever \u2026 By my estimation. He was an IBM fellow and he \ufffcwon the Nobel prize\ufffc For physics in 1973. He discovered the property of electron tunneling in solids . tunneling diodes are still also called &#8216;Esaki diodes , after him\ufffc.<\/p>\n<p>He retired back in 1992 but I remember meeting him at a function\u2026 I was  pretty excited to meet him<\/p><\/p>\n\nI just read in Wikipedia that he had these 5 &#8220;don&#8217;t rules&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t allow yourself to be trapped by your past experiences.\n<li>Don&#8217;t allow yourself to become overly attached to any one authority in your field \u2013 the great professor, perhaps.\n<li>Don&#8217;t hold on to what you don&#8217;t need.\n<li>Don&#8217;t avoid confrontation.\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget your spirit of childhood curiosity\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3664.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75596\" width=\"113\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3664.jpg 113w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3664.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3665.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75597\" width=\"123\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3665.jpg 123w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3665.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 123px) 100vw, 123px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3667.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75599\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3667.jpg 220w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3667.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3668.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75598\" width=\"670\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3668.jpg 670w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3668.jpg 127w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/img_3668.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed my conversation with Ana\u2026 And really liked your line of thinking about Zoom fatigue. She writes about education and technology\u2026 She&#8217;s a good person to know\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>Ok that a it for today<\/p>\n<p>More tomorrow <\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>\ufffc<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super super busy day\u2026 I had several phone meetings\u2026 The most fun was with my new friend Anna .. She\u2019s working on an article for Forbes magazine about remote collaboration\u2026Before she called\u2026 I noticed her last name was Esaki-Smith. As soon as we got on the phone I asked her if she was any relation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/12\/08\/tuesday-night-nobel-birth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; Nobel birth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75603,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75600\/revisions\/75603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}