How to pronounce“sitzfleisch”in English
One of his students, Willis Lamb, became a Nobel laureate, but Oppenheimer himself was nominated three times, but never actually won the Nobel Prize.
When asked why he thought that Oppenheimer never won the Nobel Prize, Murray Gell-Mann said that, "He didn't have Sitzfleisch" A German word that translates to sitting flesh.
The ability to sit down in a chair for a long time and do the hard work.
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Definitions of “sitzfleisch”
The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
“Sitzfleisch: a term used in chess to indicate winning by use of the glutei muscles--the habit of remaining stolid in one's seat hour by hour, making moves that are sound but uninspired, until one's opponent blunders through boredom.”
A person's bottom; the posterior.
“Just as he was snorting and puffing like a grampus, I chanced to observe a quite formidable scar on his Sitzfleisch. With an apology for the personal nature of the question, I asked if it was a war wound of some kind.”