[ExI] My mother

[PJ Manney]

David, that's a wonderful photo of your mother!  And a most Happy Birthday
to her.  She must have been quite an inspiration.

Take care,
PJ


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com>wrote:

> On Mother's Day, many of my friends posted cool pictures of theirs on
> Facebook. I posted a link to one of her from early in her career at Physics
> Today:
>
> <http://photos.aip.org/**history/Thumbnails/lubkin_**gloria_f1.jpg<http://photos.aip.org/history/Thumbnails/lubkin_gloria_f1.jpg>
> >
>
> It was taken in the control room of the 76 GeV proton synchrotron (then
> the most powerful in the world) at the Institute for High Energy Physics in
> Protvino, an hour south of Moscow. It was shot in 1968 by eminent physicist
> Nick Christofilos, who I best remember from a smörgåsbord he took us to at
> Bear Mountain.
>
> Here's what the control room looked like in 2001. It's interesting to see
> what of the original equipment was still in use, decades later:
>
> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/**wikipedia/commons/b/b8/RIAN_**
> archive_105514_U-70_atom_**smasher_control_panel.jpg<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/RIAN_archive_105514_U-70_atom_smasher_control_panel.jpg>
> >
>
> If you're curious about the facility, she wrote about it in the October
> 1968 issue. Unfortunately, it's behind a paywall.
>
> <http://www.physicstoday.org/**resource/1/phtoad/v21/i10/p55_**
> s1?isAuthorized=no<http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v21/i10/p55_s1?isAuthorized=no>
> >
>
> Oh, and today's her birthday.
>
>
> -- David.
>
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