David Friedberg

It's going to be an incredible ceremony coming up for you.

Maybe we could go back to the beginning in your history.

I'd love to hear a little bit about, you know, where'd you grow up and how'd you get started with your interest in physics?

You went to Berkeley for graduate school, right?

I was originally a physics and math undergrad at Cal.

Okay.

I changed my major later and actually got my degree in astrophysics.

There was some upper division math class that really turned me off to math as a major.

There was just so many proofs.

It drove me nuts.

Right, right.

And then physics was always exciting, but I liked working in the astrolab.

And I worked actually at Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

Oh, OK.

Yeah.

But then you stayed at Berkeley and went to grad school, right?

So he showed like if you put helium-3 cold enough, it kind of almost has this new sort of characteristics with the physics and how it moves and how it works.

I think that's really worth spending a moment on.

Yeah, great.

So when we talk about quantum mechanics, when we talk about the relative position or energy or movement of a particle at the atomic scale, as small as an atom or smaller than an atom,