Quote of the day
... it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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:
- Atomic Weapons and East-West Relations (1956)
- Studies of War: Nuclear and Conventional (1962)
- The gap widens (1970)