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Ruto parents land to raise a little flax and a lot of co parapeveneinberg). Groe part of a remote country, as far from tream of science as it o be, but in 1895 took o tory at Cambridge University, o become ttestplace in to do physics.
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Ruto be a genius, but even luckier to live at a time ing and so compatible (imentsnotanding). Never again e so comfortably overlap.
For all an especially brilliant man and ually prettyterrible at matics. Often during lectures so lost in ions tell tudents to out for themselves.
According to ime colleague James Cron, even particularly clever at experimentation. enacious and open-minded. Forbrilliance ituted sing out toiers, as far as deal furt oted ractable problem, o it people and to be more receptive tounortions. est breakto spendimmensely tedious ting at a screen counting alpicle scintillations, as t of o see—possibly t—t t in tom could, if o “make this old world vanish in smoke.”
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