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Old 12-October-2005, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Candy
ToSeek brings up a thought - I wonder how many BAUTers are of Nobel blood. I remember reading where hhEb09'1 had telephoned a person who won the Nobel Prize, simply to discuss an additional idea or something to that affect. I think he was Grapes then. Grapes was surprised the man answered his own published number. Yes, this was a really really old thread I read.
I've met five additional Nobel winners (two before winning, three after). An advantage of working with atomic clocks and in the laser cooling/trapping field - four of the prizes since 1989 have tied in, somehow, so we attend the same conferences.
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