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Re:Lies We Tell Kids by hugh on Tuesday May 13, 2008 @05:41PM (#189057)
Oh, I interpreted "almost no one reading this knows..." as referring to the users of this board.
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Re:Lies We Tell Kids by mhartl on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @12:45AM (#189268)
Your original interpretation was right. Perhaps I underestimated the number of physicists hanging out here. (I hope so! It would be cool to think people here know who these guys are.) In any case, the original point remains: even on Hacker News, Marie Curie is far better-known than Lev Landau, and it's not because she was the greater scientist.
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Re:Lies We Tell Kids by AndyKelley on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @03:34AM (#189360)
I am not a physicist, and I have not heard of either of those guys, but I've heard of Curie and Carver.
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Re:Lies We Tell Kids by daniel_yokomizo on Friday May 23, 2008 @12:51PM (#198168)
I have a Landau book in my hands right now ;)
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