--- title: Wise guy | daily.dev description: A personal tribute to physicist Mark Wise, a Caltech professor known for his warmth, clarity of teaching, and the tradition of tossing quarters to students who... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wise-guy-o6wcnflek twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wise guy | daily.dev og:description: A personal tribute to physicist Mark Wise, a Caltech professor known for his warmth, clarity of teaching, and the tradition of tossing quarters to students who... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wise-guy-o6wcnflek og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O6wCnflek.png og:image:alt: Wise guy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wise guy **[Quantum Frontiers](https://daily.dev/sources/quantumfrontiers)** · 4 min read · 20 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal tribute to physicist Mark Wise, a Caltech professor known for his warmth, clarity of teaching, and the tradition of tossing quarters to students who asked or answered questions. The author, a former student at Perimeter Institute and Caltech, reflects on how Wise's pedagogical generosity and humor left a lasting impression, inspiring her to carry on his quarter-tossing tradition in her own quantum-steampunk creative writing course. Mark Wise passed away in the summer of 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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