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Originally Posted by Capcom
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I remember him. A strange and interesting guy who I met through my father-in-law, Irving Rowe. It was Irving, as the NY representative of the ONR, who proposed and supported the first Quantum Electronics Conference, organized by Townes, in 1959. It was a thrilling time.
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Townes, Rabi and my father-in-law inspired me to pursue the study of physics at Columbia. Both my father-in-law and, much later, my granddaughter did succeed in physics at Columbia but, alas, my talents lay elsewhere.