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Article: Serendipity in physics research.(Report)
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- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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This paper relates several serendipitous discoveries in physics in the 19th and 20th centuries. They are all experimental in nature and the places range from reputable universities to modern research laboratories. The discoverers could be working in solo or in group. The subject discovered ranges from the finest nucleus to the limitless cosmos.
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Bob Berman in his book Strange Universe related a classic case of serendipity in science which culminated in the award of Nobel Prize to the discoverers. Page 164 of the book says that in 1965 Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias while using a Bell Laboratories radio telescope to survey the sky's radio ...