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title: "Wise guy"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/wise-guy-o6wcnflek
source_url: https://quantumfrontiers.com/2026/07/26/wise-guy
type: article
source: "Quantum Frontiers"
published: 2026-07-27T00:22:53.175Z
updated: 2026-07-27T22:22:28.099Z
tags: ["quantum-computing"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 20
comments: 0
language: en
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# 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.

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