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According to Variola, the close proximity of the experimenters is unusual...
ATHENA member Alessandro Variola, a scientist from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), says that such borrowing of techniques from other scientists is a natural and necessary component of scientific progress. “You can mix a huge amount of…different experiences, different techniques. You must be careful to choose the techniques that allow you the best [results],” he says. “And surely, some of the techniques of Dr. Gabrielse were useful...
Though both research groups worked to be the first to achieve a shared goal, the competition was not clouded with animosity, Variola says...
...It’s not so common in physics to have two experiments running on the same subject…two different experiments with the same setup and the same machine,” Variola says...
...Smallpox is a serious, highly contagious infectious disease. There are two forms of smallpox: variola major, which is the most severe and common form, manifests as a widespread, distinctive rash and high fever; and variola minor, which is far less common and also less dangerous. Variola major generally kills about 30 percent of its victims. The virus can be spread by bodily contact or by coughing...