Occupation: Physicist Birth: March 31, 1890 Death: July 1, 1971
The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment “Now.” As this moment steadily advances through time it c….
The present rate of progress [in X-ray crystallography] is determined, not so much by the lack of problems to investigate or the limited power of X-r….
[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, an….
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expressio….
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturd….
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them..