It turns out that Frank Wilczek, “co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics”:http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6415036, is the father of “Amity Wilczek”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/natureisprofligate/2004/10/05#a158 who is now back blogging at _Nature is Profligate_. Amity has also gotten married during her hiatus – it’s hard to know where the congratulations should begin.
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harry 10.13.04 at 3:42 am
No it isn’t Henry. Getting married is her achievement, the Nobel is her dad’s. Congratulate her on the marriage, and hope it is happy and lasting. And tell her to congratulate her dad for you.
Doug 10.13.04 at 3:21 pm
Saw this somewhere else, who said that she had gotten her PhD. So maybe it’s a tough question for the academics after all: congrats for the degree or the husband first?
harry 10.13.04 at 3:49 pm
I married 2 months after getting my PhD. My PhD was the inevitable result of a gruelling time in study. My wife: I just couldn’t, and still can’t, 13 years later, believe my luck. Someone who values their PhD more than their marriage shouldn’t have gotten married.
Henry 10.13.04 at 6:32 pm
I got my Ph.D. three days before I started dating the woman who is now my wife (and two days before my 30th birthday). I can remember getting off the plane back to Germany, where I met up with two friends who had planned to take me out to dinner in order to celebrate the doctorate and anniversary, only to have to listen to me babbling incoherently for the entire meal about this wonderful woman who I had just met.
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