Must have been a hell of a place in the 1940's, that Cambridge...

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5. The excerpt came from Pople's Nobel autobiography, and this particular paragraph is excerpted...

...exactly as written. It is a long paragraph with a lot in it, but it is as it is.

I'm really not competent to edit a Nobel Laureate, although one of my son's professors actually did just that (and was acknowledged in the lecture itself).

It may be a reflection of Pople's intellect that he was able to regard a complex tale all at once, in a sort of run on single thought. Frankly I find the paragraph kind of beautiful in the sense that the breathlessness captures the sense of what it must have been like to have been a young man in that environment.