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Laurentian letters: Professor says goodbye; Details must be released; Lost opportunities Back to video
In perhaps my last significant act as your chairperson, I reach out to you on this darkest of days in the proud 60-odd year history of this department. At the end of the business day on Friday, the department of physics (once the department of physics and astronomy), officially ceased to exist.
I symbolically turned off the lights and locked the doors on my way out of this incredible, quasi-fairy tale-type story. A story which among so many other accomplishments, played a significant role in the only Nobel Prize with which this university has ever been directly associated.