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[Phys-L] Anderson's pear Re: [tap-l] Newton's apple story


On 2010, Jan 20, , at 09:27, John Hubisz <hubisz@mindspring.com> wrote:

Now that you have heard of the importance of the apple tree to Newton, how many of you know the importance of the pear tree to Carl Anderson, Nobel Prize winner in physics? Carl David Anderson was sitting under a pear tree one day examining his latest photographic plates when all of a sudden he was hit on the head by a pear that immediately split in two. He immediately exclaimed, "That's it! Pair production!"

John Hubisz