Word: quigg
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Even rival American physicists were impressed. At Fermilab, the big U.S. accelerator center outside Chicago, Chris Quigg whimsically conceded, "They walk like Ws and talk like Ws." Rubbia was both ebullient and philosophical. Noting that scientists have been chopping matter into ever finer pieces since the time of the Greeks, he said, "We may not yet be at the end of the ladder...
Some physicists greeted Reines' findings with skepticism. Said Theorist Chris Quigg of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago: "It's a brute force, heroic effort rather than an elegant experiment with lots of internal checks." But none denied that if Reines' case can be confirmed, it will have wide-ranging implications...