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



Thought you might enjoy this anecdote of Dr Mollan's

Brian Whatcott Altus OK Indian Territory.


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Subject: [rete] Laboratory garbage
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 14:44:44 +0100
From: Charles Mollan <cmollan@iol.ie>
Reply-To: rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk
To: rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk <rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk>



Laboratory garbage Hi All

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".

Regards

Charles


Charles Mollan, 17 Pine Lawn, Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland (we have no post codes); Tel: +353 1 2896186; Fax: +353 1 2898817; Mobile: +353 86 8144570; E-mail: cmollan@iol.ie