John Preskill

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321 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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Freakonomics Radio · The Brilliant Mr. Feynman (Update) · 27 May 2026 podcast

Schwinger was an extraordinarily brilliant guy, but brilliant in a different way.

People always talked about them as being competitive.

It was clear when we spoke to Schwinger that he had that kind of barbed respect that you have for a worthy adversary.

He clearly wasn't all that fond of Feynman.

Feynman also spoke about it, and he said that he thought that people like us made a bit too much of their rivalry.

And he said it was more like two people running a race.

But it's, you know, fundamentally a friendly competition because they're both pushing each other.

I'd asked him to explain what he'd done to win the Nobel Prize, and he started talking about quantum electrodynamics, and of course I really couldn't understand this.

I'm Christopher Sykes.

I was a documentary filmmaker for many years for the BBC and Channel 4.

I found myself at some point saying, was it worth the Nobel Prize?

Which did produce, I have to say, a really classic response.

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what.

And if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that X, Y or Z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize.

I don't like honors.

I appreciate it for the work that I did and for people who appreciate it.

And I notice a lot of physicists use my work.

I don't need anything else.

I've already got the prize.

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