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Article: PHYSICIST'S OTHER MATTER IS WORDPLAY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 23, 1994
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Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer
Like many creative people, Raymond E. Benenson is subject to both dry spells and moments of inspiration.
``There are sometimes long droughts and sometimes the ideas come one after another,'' says Benenson, a University at Albany physics professor who studies things like X-ray focusing techniques and the behavior of atomic particles.
He may go for weeks without a good idea and, suddenly, while driving home to Niskayuna, his brain will light up like a supernova.
Of course, the ideas may just as likely consist of puns or catchy rhymes as new approaches toward particle physics or X-rays. For the past ...