Talk:Rufus Bowen

"Most notably" ???
The article includes this passage:

''Since 1981, an eminent mathematician or scientist has spoken each year under the auspices of The Bowen Lectures at Berkeley. According to the University, "The Bowen Lectures are supported by an anonymous donor, who was an undergraduate student of Rufus Bowen."[10] Most notably, Roger Penrose gave the talks in 2002-3 and Edward Witten lectured in 2006-7.''

In the list of Bowen lecturers at http://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/lectures/bowen, I count no fewer than 9 Fields medalists (widely seen as the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel prize: Michael Atiyah, John Milnor, Alain Connes, Shing-Tung Yau, Simon Donaldson, Curt McMullen, Edward Witten, Michael Freedman, Cédric Villani — and I may have missed a few). Not to mention numerous other highly awarded researchers. So it appears to be an arbitrary point of view that would single out just 2 of the 32 speakers to date and say their having spoken was more notable than the other 30 speakers. This POV should be removed.Daqu (talk) 16:20, 25 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Be WP:BOLD and remove those two words! I'll go ahead and do it now. The article's only had about twenty edits in the past five years. --McGeddon (talk) 16:21, 30 October 2014 (UTC)