FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

Friends and Colleagues

FRIEDHOFFER MEETS WITH STEPHEN HAWKING

While meeting with world renowned physicist,
Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor
of Mathematics at Cambridge University, science
magician Bob Friedhoffer demonstrated some
fascinating card tricks. He caused one card to
"visibly" melt through another , and a card packet
to vanish from his hands, only to reappear moments
later in his mouth. Friedhoffer related this impressive
presentation of sleight of hand to: quantum theory,
time travel and cosmology.

The performance elicited a smile of delight from Hawking who might
be the world's most famous living physicist, along with the comment,

"That's why I'm not an experimental physicist.
You can never believe the evidence!"

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CORRESPONDENCE FROM NOBEL LAUREATE RICHARD ERNST

Mr. Bob Friedhoffer
Center for Advanced Study in Education
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309

It was truly unforgettable to experience your performance at the Technorama in Winterthur yesterday evening. I am convinced that your mission of raising the public interest for science is a very important one. The future of mankind depends to a large extent on our proper usage of scientific and technological means. And without some public knowledge of scientific facts. and approaches there will be continuing misusage of technology. Your fascinating approach will reach a broad public from the very young ones to mature adults. I would like to thank you for your contribution to bridging the gap between science and the public.

Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Richard R. Ernst

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991

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Friedhoffer Meets with Hans Bethe

Bethe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1967
for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
Bethe later campaigned together with Albert Einstein
in the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
against nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race.
He influenced the White House to sign the
ban of atmospheric nuclear tests in 1963
and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (SALT I) in 1972

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Friedhoffer with Jerome I. Friedman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 for Deep Inelastic Scattering: Comparisons with the Quark Model

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