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Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

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Richard Ernst
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: August 14
Died: 2021
Died: June 4
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