Long ago, in a galaxy far away…that is, on April 30, 2005, in Princeton…
portraits of Frank Wilczek and David Gross were added to the gallery of Princetons Nobel Prize winners in Jadwin Hall.
I just posted my whole “roast” dinner speech; here’s some of it…
In 1973, when this work was being done, Frank and I used to admire those portraits of Nobel laureates, on our many long late-night strolls through the bowels of Princeton…
Jadwin Hall basement had that wonderful gallery, and it also had the blackboards full of wonderful gnomic writings by our fellow-midnight-wanderer John Nash. And if I think back to the younger self I was then, I would have been very pleased but not too surprised to know Frank would end up with his picture in Jadwin Hall. But I would have been darn surprised that John Nash got a Nobel Prize before Frank did!
Anyway, the rest of it is here…