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Geoffrey Chew: A Scientist's Politics of Democracy in 1950s America Geoffrey Chew: A Scientist's Politics of Democracy in 1950s America
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Politics and Physics at Berkeley, 1949–54 Politics and Physics at Berkeley, 1949–54
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Geoffrey Chew and the Politics of Democracy Geoffrey Chew and the Politics of Democracy
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Pedagogical Reforms: “Secret Seminars” and “Wild Merrymaking” Pedagogical Reforms: “Secret Seminars” and “Wild Merrymaking”
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Chew's “little Red Schoolhouse” in Berkeley Chew's “little Red Schoolhouse” in Berkeley
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The S-Matrix and a Double Democracy: Diagrams and Practitioners The S-Matrix and a Double Democracy: Diagrams and Practitioners
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The Language of Democracy for a Program in Decline The Language of Democracy for a Program in Decline
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The View from Princeton The View from Princeton
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Conditions of Diagrammatic Possibilities Conditions of Diagrammatic Possibilities
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· 9 · “Democratic” Diagrams in Berkeley and Princeton
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Published:June 2005
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Few American physics departments experienced the pains of transition to the postwar political scene more abruptly, or more publicly, than the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Geoffrey Chew produced an unusual reading of Feynman diagrams during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He built his influential S-matrix program around a scaffolding of reinterpreted Feynman diagrams and worked hard to spread the new diagrammatic techniques far and wide. Theorists working elsewhere, such as Princeton, did not follow Chew in reaching the same conclusions about what the diagrams' simple lines portended. Chew's prominent S-matrix program drew on intellectual resources specific to his time and place—conceptual ingredients that extended beyond the narrow province of theoretical physics and that assumed special salience for Chew's group in Berkeley. Chew and many of his students and colleagues saw his program for strong interaction particle physics as specifically democratic at the time.
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