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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
Eric Allin Cornell
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Eric Allin Cornell
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 19
Physicist
University Teacher
Palo Alto
California
Eric A. Cornell
Eric Cornell
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Thousands
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Travel
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