From FREDERIK POHL
Philip Diamond’s letter (26 March) points out that the statement, attributed
to a talk given by me at the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, that Nobel laureates Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg were high
school Star Trek fans is suspect, since Star Trek was not yet even a gleam
in Gene Roddenberry’s eye when they were in high school.
However, what I said was that they were science fiction fans then, their
particular addiction being the science fiction magazine Astounding. Since
the forum in which the remark was made was billed as ‘The science in Star
Trek’ I suppose your reporter made a forgivable, but wrong, connection.
Frederik Pohl Palatine, Illinois
