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Bell the vegetarian

AUG 01, 2016

DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.3252

Mary Bell

A friend has drawn my attention to a letter from Kerson Huang about my husband John Stewart Bell (Physics Today, December 2015, page 8 ).

The writer claims that John was a vegetarian because of me. That is quite untrue. I believe that, influenced by George Bernard Shaw, he became a vegetarian in his teens. When I first met him he had been a vegetarian for many years. When we married it was, of course, convenient that I had been vegetarian all my life—my parents were vegetarian. As to the story about a hamburger, I can only presume that Kerson Huang misunderstood. My husband would never have eaten one.

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Mary Bell. Geneva, Switzerland.

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Volume 69, Number 8

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