"The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete."
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finding out that he was not a theoretical but an experimental physicist, as quoted in his biographical memoir.
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Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton (September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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