10-10 2024 10:23
wrote:
I did not know Jurek very well personally, though I met him at a lot of professional interactions. I would have loved to have gotten to know his personally though because he had an amazing sense of humor which would lighten the heavy atmosphere during a seminar or Zoom talk at just the right time.
I first encountered him when I was a grad student at Penn State and spent much of my time loitering around what was then called the ICGC - International Center for Gravitation and the Cosmos. There was this bald lumbering Polish giant walking through the corridors towering over everyone and I didn't quite know what to make of him. Over time I came to know of the fundamental contributions he had made to canonical quantum gravity and to general relativity. I also realised over time that in addition to being very tall, he was very gentle and easy to talk to.
My closest interaction with him was during the Loops 2019 conference in Lyon.
He was a delightful and brilliant personality and will be deeply missed.
10-10 2024 10:23
wrote:
I did not know Jurek very well personally, though I met him at a lot of professional interactions. I would have loved to have gotten to know his personally though because he had an amazing sense of humor which would lighten the heavy atmosphere during a seminar or Zoom talk at just the right time.
I first encountered him when I was a grad student at Penn State and spent much of my time loitering around what was then called the ICGC - International Center for Gravitation and the Cosmos. There was this bald lumbering Polish giant walking through the corridors towering over everyone and I didn't quite know what to make of him. Over time I came to know of the fundamental contributions he had made to canonical quantum gravity and to general relativity. I also realised over time that in addition to being very tall, he was very gentle and easy to talk to.
My closest interaction with him was during the Loops 2019 conference in Lyon.
He was a delightful and brilliant personality and will be deeply missed.
