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This time , however , Bill did not voice skepticism , since inde- pendently he had found faults in Vand's paper and had begun to wonder what the right answer was . For months both Max and Bragg had been after him to work out the helical ...
This time , however , Bill did not voice skepticism , since inde- pendently he had found faults in Vand's paper and had begun to wonder what the right answer was . For months both Max and Bragg had been after him to work out the helical ...
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Making brand - new models might take all of a week , whereas an answer was possible within a day or so . Thus as soon as I got to the lab I began adding bits of copper wire to some of our carbon - atom models , thereby changing them ...
Making brand - new models might take all of a week , whereas an answer was possible within a day or so . Thus as soon as I got to the lab I began adding bits of copper wire to some of our carbon - atom models , thereby changing them ...
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They must be told the answer quickly , so that they could reorient their research upon our work . Though I was equally anxious to build the complete model , I thought more about Linus and the possibility that he might stumble upon the ...
They must be told the answer quickly , so that they could reorient their research upon our work . Though I was equally anxious to build the complete model , I thought more about Linus and the possibility that he might stumble upon the ...
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