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Nature 423, 801 (19 June 2003) | doi:10.1038/423801b
Britannica: source of a passion for physics
Min-Liang Wong1
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
In his obituary of US physicist Julian Schwinger (Nature 370, 600; 1994), David S. Saxon wrote: "He once remarked that he had been reading straight through the Encyclopaedia Britannica and when he came to the letter P and to physics, that was it.
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