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Supervisor of the Physics Machine Shop
One short sentence, tucked among the many testimonials for Karlheinz Merkle, winner of theĀ 2015 Marsh O'Neill Award, nicely sums up his impact on experimental research at Stanford: "He made my research idea come true."