Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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)







