Astronomer Mike Merrifield had terrible handwriting and dreamed of captaining a submarine - now he's an astronomer and world expert on galaxies.
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Mike Merrifield Video Playlist
Sixty Symbols - Physics videos, many featuring Mike
Ralph Merrifield author page on Amazon
Galactic Astronomy by James Binney and Michael Merrifield
Hand-written version of Mike's 'Good Will Hunting' paper
And here is the published version
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