"On a double-log plot, my grandmother fits on a straight line."
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PrisonersPhysicists from GermanyCommunists from GermanyPhysicists from AustriaPhysicists from the Netherlands
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as quoted in Herbert Kroemer's Autobiography, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000.
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Fritz Houtermans
Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans (January 22, 1903 – March 1, 1966) was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist who made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
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