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Impossible things usually don’t happen

14 May 2000

The Odd Quantum
Sam Treiman
1999 Princeton University Press 272pp £15.95/$24.95hb

Sam Treiman was a distinguished particle theorist. The famous Goldberger-Treiman relation was, at th

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Asher Peres is the Gerard Swope distinguished professor of physics at Technion ­ Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
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