"A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life."
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David L. Webster
David Locke Webster (November 6, 1888 β December 17, 1976) was an American physicist and physics professor, whose early research on X-rays and Parson's magneton influenced Arthur Compton.
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