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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.

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When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.

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At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

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Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.

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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

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If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

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One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: June 13th, 1911

Died: September 1st, 1988

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