Robert B. Leighton (September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimentalphysicist who spent his professional career at theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech).

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• The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete.
  • finding out that he was not a theoretical but an experimental physicist, as quoted in his biographical memoir.Jesse L. Greenstein (1998). Robert B. Leighton, 1919—1996, Biographical Memoirs v.75. National Academy of Sciences. p. 164.ISBN 0-309-06295-0. 

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