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Professor Arthur Roberts
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Arthur Roberts, Professor of Physics at Rochester University, demonstrates his other passion in life while seated at a piano. He is in Madison working on a science fiction "space" opera.
July 24, 1956
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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