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by auntienomen 2891 days ago
He's not an average help-desk guy, but he's not a first rate researcher either. He produced some good lattice qft work in the late 70s/early 80s, then worked unsuccessfully on Chern-Simons theory for a while. Since then he hasn't produced any papers. For a PhD researcher, this is basically 'failure to launch'. (And to be fair, this is probably the most common outcome for STEM PhDs.)