A long time ago, a long way away from the world of chocolate in a not-so-little village called Redondo Beach in the not-so-little city of Los Angeles, I used to be a physicist, give or take.
Laser optics, superconductive electronics, dye lasers, SQUIDs, JJs, and other mysterious creatures of the night. Or at least of days in the depths of The Lab at TRW Space Park, building R1 on the corner of Aviation and Marine. I was young and we did cools (literally) things and I worked with cool people who worked on Lunar Landers and other such stuff and it was fun.
I don’t think about such things much, but “once a scientist, always a scientist” they say, and now I’m a chocolatier but I’m still a scientist, too. And so I feel honored that Dartmouth College has invited me to present a lecture for their Very Respected Charles Jones Seminars on Science, Technology and Society. This Friday, you’ll find me at Dartmouth’s Spanos Auditorium at 3:30PM providing a presumably interesting discourse entitled The Chemistry and Physics of the Chocolatier.
Before you ask, I can barely multiply and divide these days, much less integrate over multiple variables. But I do know where my phase diagram’s at!