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Uploaded by on Nov 9, 2011

We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues.

One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called Hammer and Spark.

Video also features Sixty Symbols regular (and Irishman) Professor Phil Moriarty.

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  • I keep noticing that all astrophysicists and particle physicists, when they are explaining are sort of rocking back and forth.. >.> xD pointless information ftw.

  • brady makes the best videos on youtube. i always enjoy his content. Thanks for making such awesome videos

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  • @sixtysymbols As long as Professor Moriarty is in those videos I'll watch them!

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  • Why no 'waltonium'?

  • fantastic stuff. I love learning this. Thank god my cable went off or I would have never went through these videos. i can't wait to go through the rest of these.

  • Thank you for all your great videos! Why do you have so little subscribers and views?

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