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Boys wrote a book about soap bubbles
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Bubbles helped explain the physics of thin films.
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British physicist Charles Vernon Boys turned lectures for young audiences into a book about soap bubbles, their colors, and the forces that shape thin films. A well-known 1916 edition has 190 pages, not more than 200. Boys used simple experiments to explain phenomena such as surface tension.

