"... trying to solve a paradox will lead to new kinds of understanding. And I think that the problem of subjecting black holes to quantum mechanics is a fundamental paradox of the same nature, and the same depth, and the same importance as the paradox that Max Planck was studying at the beginning of the twentieth century."
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Nobel laureates in PhysicsAcademics from the NetherlandsPhysicists from the NetherlandsNobel laureates from the NetherlandsWolf Prize in Physics laureates
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