Robert B. Leighton

Robert B. Leighton (September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was a prominent American experimental physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

• The way I solved the theoretical problem was to go into the shop and build something concrete.
  • finding out that he was not a theoretical but an experimental physicist, as quoted in his biographical memoir. Jesse L. Greenstein (1998). Robert B. Leighton, 1919—1996, Biographical Memoirs v.75. National Academy of Sciences. p. 164. ISBN 0-309-06295-0.