Autobiography in Gösta Ekspong
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2002
- Publisher
- World Scientific Pub Co Inc
- Volume / pages
- Nobel lectures, physics, 1996-2000
- Retrieved
- Jan 31, 2012
- ISBN
- 3Hq45YSQlz
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Courses That Appealed to Steven Chu
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few…
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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a 'precision' measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop…
Stephen Chu's Toys
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