Word: rubbia
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Glashow, who won the Nobel in 1979, was quotedin Time as saying, "The book is a fair picture."The quotation followed a statement from Taubesthat Rubbia "has a history of distorting andexaggerating his experimental results...
...True, Rubbia is a hot headed honcho who willmove mountains when they are in his way, but he isa supernally brilliant physicist and a man ofunimpeachable integrity," the letter says...
...Glashow still stands by his originalcomments in Time, which he said misrepresented hisquote as an attack on Rubbia. Glashow said thatthe book is an accurate portrayal of Rubbia'sfailed experiment and the world of "Big Physics...
Glashow said Taubes correctly depicts Rubbia ata "peculiar period" in which the physicist'shoped-for scientific breakthrough of finding apreviously undetected particle turned out to be afluke...
...attempt to beat his competition to whatwould have been a highly significant discovery,Rubbia published a paper on the project withoutadequate experimental documentation, Taubes said