Re: Starting a New Life on Giligan's Island

Repeating Decimal wrote:

> PSmith9626 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/2/03 6:07 PM:
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> > Dear bill,
> > Emotional glitch.
> > best
> > penny
> >
> > Strang is a mathematician.
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> >    
> >
> > > Penny;
> > >
> > > You keep on referring to Strang instead of Strong. Am I missing someth8ing?
> > >
> > >      
> > p.s. Strong also wrote the classic "Amateur Scientist" project column in
> > Scientific American.
> > It is wonderful and now available on CD.
> >
> >
> >    
> Maybe so. But the the experimental physics book I remember was by STRONG as
> indicated in the Amazon book blurb.

I think you are referring to John Strong, who was at Hopkins
for a long time and wrote books on

"Procedures in Experimental Physics" and 
"Procedures in Applied Optics"

He and his lab had a lot to do with building spectrographic
instruments, especially for space applications.

josh halpern


> Bill
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