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Re: [Phys-L] Fwd: [rete] Laboratory garbage



Nobility hath its privileges. Would they discard it if he were just Nobel
Laureate?

John M. Clement
Houston, TX


Thought you might enjoy this anecdote of Dr Mollan's



Nobel Prize Winner Ernest Walton recalled that he was
visiting the Physical Laboratory at Glasgow University and
saw a box full of broken glassware. Enquiring why it wasn't
thrown out, the reply was: "But it was broken by Lord Kelvin".