“Scientific collaborations are akin to marriages, or temporary marriages. Their breakup is not unlike a divorce and rarely avoids acrimony.”

—  Peter Freund

[Peter G. O. Freund, A passion for discovery, World Scientific, 2007, 9812706461, 89]

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American physicist 1936–2018

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