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He was born in New York as Harry J. Lipkin. He received a B.A. in electrical engineering from
Cornell and went on to do his PhD at Princeton, where he began his studies in nuclear physics. He was the roommate of celebrated mathematician John Nash, who recently died in a car
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Pedestrians" was widely used and inspired a number of further essays and books in physics, its name anticipating a later well-known book series "For Dummies".
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The Middle East for
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