I saw from an email today that Don Perkins died. He was a professor of particle physics at Oxford when I was there as an undergraduate. At least, he retired when I was still early on in my undergraduate studies around 30 years ago, but became an emeritus fellow after retirement. I did not know Prof Perkins, but heard his name invoked, and treated his textbook Introduction to High Energy Physics as the bible for any particle physics studies I had to do as an undergrad.
I recal in one tutorial with Dave Wark that we had found what appeared to be a mistake in the textbook. Dave saw Don and said "Don! I think we've found a mistake in your textbook!" "hah! only one?" was his response. RIP, Don.
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