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I greatly admired Cambridge and its science departments, for I had by now some understanding of the quality of the research work that had been done there. But at the same time, I was quite aware of the stresses and strains in the system, the jockeying for positions, and the cliques that had grown up there. But the good outweighed the bad, and I definitely wanted to return there to do research work.
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Gold, T. (2012). Return to Cambridge: The Citadel of Learning. In: Mitton, S. (eds) Taking the Back off the Watch. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27588-3_4
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