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In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
George Cowan
Born:
February 15, 1920
Died:
April 20, 2012
(aged 92)
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George A. Cowan was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist.
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