Sixteen years before the discovery of charge‐conjugation–parity nonconservation in the decay of K mesons, a very fine high‐school physics teacher got me interested in physics. I'm not sure that I wouldn't have been interested in it anyway, but nevertheless he was a remarkable gentleman in a high school in Dallas, Texas. I think high‐school physics teachers continue to play a crucial role today, so I want to make one or two remarks about physics teaching before I describe the fascinating behavior of K mesons and discuss some of the historical and human aspects of the research that Val Fitch and I did on their decay.
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Nobel acceptance speeches:
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