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...Horowitz could find neither knife nor volunteer, as both grad students declined his invitation. "We're not your grad students," they said. "We're only on loan." But he was determined to analyze some blood, and after sterilizing a probe he began testing his fingertip gently. His resolve waning, he wondered aloud, "Is this...
Some of the whispering has died away as Horowitz has settled down. He married Grodzins two years ago, and she says that since he got tenure this year, fewer people pull her aside to murmur their awe. Horowitz generates less commotion just because he will probably be around Harvard for a long time...
This makes Horowitz feel more comfortable in the Physics Department, which is filled with boy wonders now grown up or fizzled out. And although other faculty members describe him to outsiders as "exciting" and "brilliant," he particularly enjoys their weekly Monday luncheons, where the Physics professors sit and casually discuss their work with none of the pretensions of prodigies...
...there has been no refuge from the boyish image, because with the peach-skin complexion and endless energy, Horowitz seems younger at 32 than most of the undergraduates in his electronics course, Physics 123. While they slump unshaven and bleary-eyed on their lab stools on the second floor of the Science Center, Horowitz stalks the room in short, quick steps, like a freshly-scrubbed Boy Scout armed with a calculator instead of a pocket knife. He pushes aside his thick, perpetually mussed hair, and talks in bursts about electronic circuits and gadgets...
...words tumble out in a rush, full of hard advice in terms of "bucks" and hours, and mixed with engineering jokes about explosions and electrocutions. "That's a good way to get yourself blown up," Horowitz says as he modifies a circuit plan on the blackboard. His students, who had to fight their way into the course, laugh briefly but quickly return to their slouches and listen carefully, sifting through the secrets about studying stars, building stereos, and what Horowitz might have found on an apple skin the other...