Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Brian Pippard
Born: September 7, 1920
Died: September 21, 2008 (aged 88)
Bio: Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, FRS, was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first President. He was educated at Clifton College.
Known for:
- Cavendish Problems in Classical Physics (1962)
- Magnetoresistance in metals (1989)
- The physics of vibration (1978)
- Response and stability (1985)