Ah, Harry Nyquist ... I remember as an engineering student at North Dakota State University learning that Nyquist was a graduate of the University of North Dakota just up the road in Grand Forks. Made me proud!
I just discovered this on his wiki page ... "Bell Labs patent lawyers wanted to know why some people were so much more productive (in terms of patents) than others. After crunching a lot of data, they found that the only thing the productive employees had in common (other than having made it through the Bell Labs hiring process) was that "Workers with the most patents often shared lunch or breakfast with a Bell Labs electrical engineer named Harry Nyquist. It wasn't the case that Nyquist gave them specific ideas. Rather, as one scientist recalled, 'he drew people out, got them thinking'"
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Mike - kb2ml
