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It is difficult to describe Bruno Touschek if you have not met him. In contrast to the stereotype of the Physics professor, absorbed in his thoughts and a little absent-minded, you have to imagine a restless type, inclined to make eccentric and extravagant jokes, to play hybrid word games (Austrian + Italian + English) and to respond the address of his interlocutor with bright, darting eyes. Bruno was a lover of Karl Kraus and his Central European satire, a jewel of sarcastic literature; moreover, Bruno knew how to draw, with that merciless trait that we can see in certain drawings by Egon Schiele.
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E. Amaldi, Bruno Touschek’s Legacy, CERN 81-19, Geneva (1981)
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Mussardo, G. (2020). Touschek. The Lord of the Rings. In: The ABC’s of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55169-8_20
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