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Rutherford was a disaster. He started the 'something for nothing' tradition…the notion that research can always be done on the cheap…The war taught us differently. If you want quick and effective results you must put the money in.

Edward Bullard

Most of the scientists in their twenties and thirties who went in 1939 to work on wartime problems were profoundly affected by their experience. The belief that Rutherford's boys were the best boys, that we could do anything that was do-able and could master any subject in a few days was of enormous value.

Edward Bullard

The straightness, symmetry, extent and ubiquity of these patterns is without parallel in geology and their discovery was completely unexpected.

Edward Bullard

Edward Bullard

Edward Bullard

Born: September 21, 1907

Died: April 3, 1980 (aged 72)

Bio: Sir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard was a geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics.

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