Ana and I getting ready…. Bob Jaffe was 50 years at MIT and it was a momentous event in the Samberg Center. Many speakers to sing the praise of a phenomenal colleague. He ran my promotion committee at the time and it was a pleasure to see how professional he took care of my case.
Bob Jaffe was and still is an amazing teacher, he was a great researcher interested in how the real world works, famously wrote a book with Wati Taylor about the Physics of Energy (a 900 page masterpiece) and was an important person in the MIT administration. He changed the MIT calendar, which is considered a major accomplishment.
