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My first encounter with the name of Manuel Cardona was through the scientific literature. My thesis advisor in Rome, Franco Bassani, gave me a substantial bibliography to read on the optical properties of solids, and of course the name of Manuel Cardona was all over! The then new tool of synchrotron radiation was being exploited to access a very broad wavelength range, and Manuel, in a sabbatical in Hamburg was flooding the world with the red DESY preprints… a primary source of information for my first confrontations with frontier physics research.
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Altarelli, M. (2016). Manuel Cardona: Scientific Mentor, Man of Culture and Friend. In: Ensslin, K., Viña, L. (eds) Manuel Cardona. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20343-0_3
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