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NOTES OF AN OLD GRADUATE STUDENT

    This essay was first published in the Yuri Golfand Memorial Volume The Many Faces of the Superworld (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000).

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812385505_0006Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
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    1962: Nine years before the birth of the Superworld in four dimensions. I received a passing grade on my entrance exams to the Department of Physics at Moscow State University but ran into trouble with the medical commission.1 I gathered my certificates of a winner of many university competitions and arranged an audience with the dean of the School of Physics. I explained to him that I wanted to become a theoretical physicist. His answer was: “No one is above the law”…

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