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Prior to the Federation of Case and WRU (1957 – 1967)

I began my undergraduate studies at Imperial College in 1957, the same year that Bardeen, Cooper and Schriefer (BCS) published¹ their famous theory of superconductivity. Consequently, during my graduate studies, as well as having sine-qua-non experimental help from my two IC mentors, I also had BCS to work with, together with the extensive² theoretical work that it had led to.

My graduate thesis was published³ in 1964, the same year that I came to Cleveland as a postdoc in B.S. Chandrasekhar’s superconductivity lab at WRU. Over the years, Chandra started as my boss and finished a deep friend. So, when he left us in 2021 at the age of 93, I had the honor of delivering his memorial⁴ the following year the College of Arts and Sciences at CWRU.

A largely forgotten detail of Chandra’s early career at WRU was his suggestion that it honor one of his friends with a D.Sc degree. The event itself took place on June 15th 1966, during WRU’s commencement proceedings. Chandra gave a wonderful speech and John Bardeen received his honorary degree. And bless his heart, Chandra managed to organize things so that his postdoc was able to talk physics with that truly great man for over an hour.

That conversation has become my most cherished memory from my pre-federation days.

1. J. BardeenJ, L.N. Cooper and J.R. Shrieffer, Phys. Rev. 93. 1175, 1957
2. In my case, particularly: D. Markowitz and L. P. Kadanoff, Phys. Rev. 131, 563, 1963.
3. D.E. Farrell, J.G. Park and B.R. Coles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 328, 1964
4. https://artsci.case.edu/artsci-update-archive/b-schandrasekhar-former-dean-of-the-college-passes-awayat-93

CWRU (1967 – 2009)
(In preparation)