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Very, VERY, loosely based upon a true story.


The real student, this movie was based upon, was no Nobel Prize laureate in-waiting. He was a gifted, but unambitious physics student at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s. See link for the real story.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-06-07/magazine/tm-411_1_lu-gang

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This is a fascinating story and thanks for the link. It doesn't really support your description of him as unambitious. He was desperate to support himself in a failing economy where jobs in his field were growing scarcer, and he felt victimized by academic politicians whom he felt sabotaged his chances of getting the recognition he deserved.

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