Robert B. Leighton

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

Quotes

 * 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.