“I did all the problems a little different from the rest of the class.”

—  Samuel Abraham Goudsmit

in an interview http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4640_1.html by Thomas Samuel Kuhn on December 5, 1963, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA

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