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I would like to begin by thanking Nino Zichichi, Harvey Newman, Tom Ypsilantis, and all the staff for the opportunity to be in this beautiful place and to reminisce about a fun decade of physics. Because time is so short, I am going to focus very narrowly on the decade of the 70′s, and to concentrate particularly on a 24 hour period which, for me, was the most exciting. I’ll flash a few transparencies to keep the theorists awake, but they won’t matter much. I will give a personal, or at most a Harvard-MIT perspective on the events that led to GUTS. I understand less well what was going on in Europe, or Caltech or Maryland, etc.
Research suported in part b the National Science Foundation under Grant #PHY-9218167
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Georgi, H. (1996). Grand Unified Theories. In: Newman, H.B., Ypsilantis, T. (eds) History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 352. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1147-8_30
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