"By the Light of the Marquee Moon" with Larry Rosenblum | Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers

“By the Light of the Marquee Moon” with Larry Rosenblum

Posted by Seandor Szeles | 30 January 2013

How a young Larry Rosenblum discovered in one rock song the “touch of revolution” that changed the way he imagined himself as a scientist, and allowed him to become the Perceptual Psychologist he is today.

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