Berkeley Prof Wins Nobel Prize for Physics

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Does he teach undergraduates?</p>

<p>Has he ever taught undergraduates?

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<p>What a most irreverent and irrelevant question!</p>

<p>Of course, he taught undergraduates. See <a href=“http://ls.berkeley.edu/?q=node/514[/url]”>Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture | Letters & Science;

<p>Such announcement deserves a special mention:</p>

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**Did You Know They Teach Undergrads? **</p>

<p>Both Saul Perlmutter and Alex Filippenko, world-renowned scientists now recognized with the Gruber Prize, teach lower division couses at Cal. Perlmutter will teach his Physics and Music course again next spring, and Filippenko teaches Introduction to General Astronomy in the fall. Both courses are part of L&S’s Discovery Courses.</p>

<p>“We reach out to students who would never come to a physics class,” Perlmutter said about these courses.

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<p>Please applaud the fact that at Berkeley, he has developed a course for non-scientists on “Physics & Music.”</p>

<p>Does the Campanile sound out of tune to you? What does this have to do with our understanding of the Big Bang? And how would thinking about this help me to write a better English essay, defend an innocent person accused of murder, save the world from the next plague, or at least understand why my friend can’t carry a tune?</p>

<p>Physics and Music is a course designed to help students think about how to approach the world with the eyes, ears, and mind of a scientist. We will use the domain of music and sound to ask what we can learn about the nature of reality and the methods that we humans have developed to discover how the world works.</p>

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