Jeremy Bernstein Reflects on His Experience at Brookhaven National Lab

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Born in 1929, Jeremy Bernstein is an American physicist, educator and writer known for the clarity of his writing for the lay reader on the major issues of modern physics. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: 2011]


TRANSCRIPT: I had at the time also a job offer from Brookhaven National Lab and I made a deal with them that I would go to do my National Science Foundation and then I would... I would come to Brookhaven for 6 months and then I'd go back to Europe for another 6 months and then come back to Brookhaven. That's the arrangement that I made with them. So after my wonderful year in France and Switzerland, I went to Brookhaven for my 6 months and I was pretty unhappy. I found it very isolated. The science was good, but I thought the life was really very, very unhappiness-making.