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A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

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Thus was born the vast modern subject of nuclear physics, which now gives such fertile research problems to so many of the world's physicists and, incidentally, such headaches to so many of the world's statesmen.

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Patrick Blackett

Born: November 18, 1897
Died: July 13, 1974 (aged 76)
Bio: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.
Known for:
  1. Atomic Weapons and East-West Relations (1956)
  2. Studies of War: Nuclear and Conventional (1962)
  3. The gap widens (1970)

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