Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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)