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David Lee

Profession : Physicist

Birth : January 20, 1931

Liquid helium belongs to a class of fluids known as quantum fluids, as distinct from classical fluids.

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You never know what may happen in the future.

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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

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Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

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My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

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I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

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Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

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Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.

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There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

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I really came to the conclusion that the reason I'd keep playing was so that I could sit in this interview and say I played fourteen years instead of twelve. Ego-wise, I'm not a Hall of Famer, so what stats am I trying to pad, and for what reason?

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I'd thought, Once I get that big contract, all my problems will go away.

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I'd like to lengthen out my jump shot to be a 3-point shooter.

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I think I can be a decent 3-point shooter.

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The Knicks need to do what's best for the Knicks, and David Lee needs to do what's best for David Lee.

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I think preseason is about getting better each game and executing what we've worked on in practice and being ready for opening night.

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I've been on teams in the preseason where you're just begging guys to play hard.

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I'm just trying to be a hard worker, do things the right way, and give advice when I can.

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We were in Golden State, we listened to music before the game in the locker room, everyone's laughing, everybody's playing cards on the plane, everybody's going out and having a drink together. It was a very, very loose atmosphere, and when it came down to it, we got the job done and we won a championship.

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I have always been lucky enough to have Thanksgiving dinner with my family.

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I haven't been given anything. It's not like I was a guy that came straight out of high school and was given a max contract and told how wonderful he was.

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