Leaders wanted

摘要

Burt Richter, the Nobel laureate and physicist who used to run the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, once had to entertain Dana Rohrabacher, a prickly Republican congressman inexplicably charged with overseeing his lab. Richter took Rohrabacher home to show off his extensive pistol collection. "I wanted him to know that not all physicists were wimps," Richter later told me.