Sunday, April 9, 2006

John Brodie - sad story

Today, Rutland Herald offers a very sad story about

whom many people, not only at Princeton University, Stanford University and the Perimeter Institute, know pretty well. John has suffered from bipolar mental illness - the same disorder that Mary Winkler has been treated for - and jumped into a cold river on January 28th, 2006.



Technically, his most well-known paper was his work with Amihay Hanany about brane boxes but the paper he co-authored and one can't forget is

with Bernevig, Susskind, and Toumbas about the construction of the quantum Hall effect from D-branes.

Via Not Even Wrong.