Hans Georg Dehmelt Quotes

Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize . Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. September 1922 – 7. March 2017
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Hans Georg Dehmelt Quotes

“In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. “To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron.”

Hans Georg Dehmelt

concluding his Nobel lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/dehmelt-lecture.html referring to the richness of the physics of subatomic particles.

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