William Webster Hansen was an American physicist and professor. He was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. Wikipedia
“Given a good shop and good measurement equipment a sound physicist can do wonderful work.”
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Context: Good physics can be done if we have a good shop. … Given a good shop and good measurement equipment a sound physicist can do wonderful work.
“What can we sell them? Not our soul.”
Hansen writing to himself in his scrapbook while pondering about industrial sponsorship in university research work, as quoted by [Peter Louis Galison and Bruce William Hevly, Big science: the growth of large-scale research, Stanford University Press, 1992, 57]
