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Leonard Mandel

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It's kind of interesting to show that the strange features of quantum mechanics are actually observed. We still don't totally understand what it means.
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as quoted by James Glanz, in Leonard Mandel, 73, Revealer Of Light's Weirdness, Is Dead, New York Times (Tuesday, February 13, 2001)

 
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