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DOI: 10.1063/1.2978078
The following piece of doggerel was delivered in an after‐dinner talk by Harvard particle theorist Sheldon L. Glashow, once a California physicist himself. He spoke at the APS New England Sectional Meeting on 12 October at Northeastern University.
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