Brett Sisman's Passion for Physics

I owe my passion for physics to my uncle Bob.  I hadn't realized he was an internationally known scientist when he visited us and made paper airplanes for me.  I loved those paper airplanes and said, "Why didn't anyone ever tell me about Uncle Bob?" Later in life I visited Uncle Bob, a physics genius; we had a marvelous conversation about the books he has written. When I left, he said, "Why didn't anyone tell me about Brett?"  Uncle Bob is the greatest!

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