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Hammer and Spark

By Daniel Smith on Nov 16, 11 10:00 AM

Sixty Symbols discuss Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues.

One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called Hammer and Spark.

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Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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