The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
From Eric Allin Cornell
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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