David Friedberg
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That was fun.
That was great.
Well, the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious honor and particularly in physics that I think can be awarded.
You're in the record books.
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?