01/17/2017 – Trinity option – Science

The sad news came by email from Moscow. On January 5, 2017, Spartak Timofeevich Belyaev passed away. More recently, after his 93rd birthday, he wrote that he was cheerful and efficient. Just recently, his employees were amazed at how he climbed to the fourth floor without an elevator or cheerfully ran across the street to the bus, holding a wand under his arm. More recently, we discussed, via the same email, the properties of phonons and rotons in liquid helium. And now he’s gone...