And it was proposed by my thesis advisor Professor Weisskopf that we work on this problem to understand the effect of the impurities in scattering electrons and interfering with their motion.

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The thesis of 3.091, and this is where the chemistry comes in, is that electronic structure of the elements holds the key to the understanding, not just the chemical bonding, but the long range atomic order.

这是这门课的论点，这是化学的研究点，也就是元素的电子结构,那即是理解的关键，不只是化学键，还有长程的原子排序。

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If Frederick Jackson Turner had anything right in "The Frontier Thesis", although he didn't pay hardly any attention to the South, this idea of a safety valve of a West to move to was surely there for slavery.

如果弗雷德里克·杰克逊·特纳,在《边境论》中有什么正确的言论,那就是,尽管他对南方几乎没有施以任何关注,即这个西进运动是一道安全阀的构想,显然是为奴隶制而设的

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