Rock climbing guide
- ID-nummer
- 2025.014.001
- Titel
- Rock climbing guide
- Publik beskrivning
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This rock climbing guide was used by John Martinis on his hikes in Yosemite National Park in California.
For Martinis, mountain climbing is a welcome break from his research. It requires focusing totally on something else and takes his mind off his work on quantum mechanics. When he returns from his hikes, he is ready to take a fresh look at research problems.
He has climbed since he was young, and John Clarke who supervised his doctoral work used to worry a little every time he went rock climbing. But he always returned safe and sound, and many years later was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics together with Clarke and Michel Devoret.
John Martinis donated the mountaineering guide to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2025. - Pristagare
- John M. Martinis
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