“When professor Frank retired, I helped him clean out his desk in the Physics Department. There were letters from such renowned physicists as Erwin Schrödinger that he had not bothered to open. We opened one from Schrödinger which began, ‘Just between us daughters of parsons…’ and went on with some gossip that had been fresh several years earlier. ‘You see, it wasn’t so important anyway,’ Professor Frank remarked.”
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Jeremy Bernstein, “Childe Bernstein to Relativity Came”, My Einstein
I like the idea that famous physicists would be gossiping amongst themselves.
