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The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.

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Arthur Eddington
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: December 28
Died: 1944
Died: November 22
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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