Peter’s Blog

Or rather, the GSB: David Booth, GSB’71, is donating $300 million to the University of Chicago GSB. Not surprisingly, it will then be named after him. Not sure how I feel about this…

From the latest email to University of Chicago alumni:

Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, has been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Professor Nambu joins 81 other Nobel laureates who have been affiliated with the University, including 27 prior recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

We rock!

I never made it to Jimmy’s (I was 20 when I graduated from the UofC) but, all the same, it’s fun to see a NY Times profile on Jimmy’s this weekend.