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In 1975, when Schawlow was President of the Optical Society of America, he proposed a contest for the best “Turvy Topsy.” A “Turvy Topsy” is, of course, the inverse of a Topsy Turvy, whereas a Topsy Turvy is a picture which looks like some recognizable object when right side up or upside down. A “Turvy Topsy”, therefore, must show an object which is always obviously upside down.
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Yen, W.M., Levenson, M.D. (1987). The Turvy Topsy Contest. In: Yen, W.M., Levenson, M.D. (eds) Lasers, Spectroscopy and New Ideas. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47872-0_18
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