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There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible.

~ Luis W. Alvarez

Luis W. Alvarez Berkeley Humour Physics Science

Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.

~ Luis W. Alvarez

Luis W. Alvarez Graduate Graduate Student Phd Physics Science

Robert Oppenheimer used to tell of the pioneer mysteries of building reliable Geiger counters that had low background noise. Among his friends, he said, there were two schools of thought. One school firmly held that the final step before one sealed off the Geiger tube was to peel a banana and wave the skin three times, sharply to the left.The other school was equally confident that success would follow if one waved the banana peel twice to the left and then, once, smartly to the right. (My counters were unbelievably bad because I didn't use either of these techniques.)

~ Luis W. Alvarez

Luis W. Alvarez Banana Berkeley Geiger Geiger Counter Oppenheimer Physics Science

Around the lab I heard that publicity was measured in an absolute unit, the kan. That unit was too large for ordinary application and a practical unit one one-thousandth of the size served in its place, the millikan.

~ Luis W. Alvarez

Luis W. Alvarez Physics Politics Press Science Science Writing
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