In Memory Of David Cline
Sunday, June 28, 2015 - 11:10
in Psychology & Sociology
I was saddened today to hear of the death of David Cline. I do not have much to say here - I am not good with obituaries - but I do remember meeting him at a conference in Albuquerque in 2008, where we chatted on several topics, among them the history of the CDF experiment, a topic on which I had just started to write a book. Perhaps the best I can do here as a way to remember Cline, whose contributions to particle physics can and will certainly be better described by many others, is to report a quote from a chapter of the book, which describes a funny episode on the very early days of CDF. I think he did have a sense of humor, so he might not dislike it if I do.--- read more