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Martin Lewis Perl

"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."

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"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."

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