Textbooks on science may give you a wrong impression that studying science is dry and all too serious and that scientists are absent-minded introverts who never laugh or grin. This image of science and scientists is patently false. Scientists, like anyother group of humans, have their share of humorists, and many have led their lives with a great sense of fun and adventure, even as they seriously pursued their scientific work. Two great physicists of this genre are Gamow and Feynman. You will enjoy reading their books listed in the Bibliography.

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It is not an exercise as such but is a statement of fact. We can add the name of other scientist who were humorists along with being Physicists. They are C. V. Raman, Homi Jahangir Bhabha, Einstein and Bohr. India have several politicians like M. M. joshi, V. P. Singh etc. who are physicists. President A. P. J. Kalam is also a great nuclear scientist.

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