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As luck would have it, I decided to learn optics at just the same time that Charlie Townes did—he by teaching the course at Columbia, me by taking it. Almost ready to quit physics in a moment of panic during that course’s uniquely-imaginative open-book final, I managed to garner a respectable grade together with a lifelong admiration for the scientist whom I am privileged to call my teacher.
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Penzias, A. (1996). Industrial Research in Today’s World. In: Chiao, R.Y. (eds) Amazing Light. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2378-8_48
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