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RefNoMS/825/12
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TitleLetter from Colleen Taylor to the Editor, 'Encounter'
Date1986
DescriptionLetter from Colleen Taylor (Senior) describing her own meeting with Dirac at a conference on energy in Fort Lauderdale in the 1970's, and her conversation with him about G H Hardy, Dirac's contemporary at Cambridge and author of 'Mathematician's Apology', and other Cambridge contemporaries including Wittgenstein of whom he commented "Awful fellow. Never stopped talking".
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