Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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)