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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy
Message-ID: <11266@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Oct 89 02:19:28 GMT
References: <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <8600002@kolmogorov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8600002@kolmogorov> ari@kolmogorov.physics.uiuc.edu writes:
>this doesn't seem to interfere with doing physics.  Oh well, 
>I guess I'm not a scientist after all.

If you had no idea who Newton, Einstein, Heisenberg, or Feynman were,
then yes I would have to say you weren't qualified as a physicist!

Remember, this thread started when somebody reported that his colleague,
who billed himself as a professional computer scientist, said that he
had no idea who Ken Thompson is or what he had done.  To me (and others)
that is comparble illiteracy to a "physicist" not knowing the names I
mentioned above.

Nobel prizes, Turing awards, etc. are of course only loosely correlated
with genuinely great names in their respective fields.