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First a cricket fan, second a physicist

By Marcus Wilson • 18/02/2015 This post was syndicated from Physics Stop - View original source


I've spent most of today thinking Google's image-of-the-day is a wicket, but have just realized it is in honour of Alessandro Volta.

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