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February 25 was the 50th anniversary of our wedding in the Chapel of the Riverside Church in Manhattan. We commemorated the day—just the two of us—at the Metropolitan Opera with a performance of Samson and Delilah (Fig. 25.1).
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In Delos (birthplace of Apollo), the aromatic smell of fresh potato pancakes wafted across the bay, emanating from a boat that flew the German flag. Starved for fresh food (after 2 weeks of canned stuff), I shouted across the bay “Haben Sie frische Kartoffeln?” “Nein.” Then where does the wonderful smell come from? Answer: “Wir haben Kartoffelpuffer-Mix!” “Okay, could you spare some?” After asking permission to board our boat, which was granted, they brought a pound or two of the potato pancake mix—delicious! In Cap Sunion, one of us (Guy Mathews) had to dive into the bay to get enough cash to pay the restaurant. At another Island, I swam ashore with my clothes in a dry bucket. But when I asked (by sign language) for a private place to change, they sent me to the public area where half the village youths congregated to watch the proceedings. Since we had opted to sail without a dinghy we sometimes had to walk fully clothed into the water to reach our boat and onlookers were probably suspecting suicides.
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My friend Manfred Eigen (from my first years in Göttingen in the 1940s), who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry (actually physical chemistry) in 1968, once remarked to me about the several things that bear my name and that only one concept (from mathematical physics) was named after him: Eigenfunktion. This was a nice joke because eigenfunctions have nothing to do with Manfred Eigen; they are named after the German Eigenfunktion (proper function).
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Schroeder, M.R. (2015). The Year 2006: One of Our Best (So Far). In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_25
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