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The year that Rutherford died there disappeared for ever the happy days of free scientific work which gave us such delight in our youth. Science has lost her freedom. Science has become a productive force. She has become rich but she has become enslaved and part of her is veiled in secrecy.

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Theory is a good thing but a good experiment lasts forever.

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Only by having a clear perspective of the future can we rightly direct our work in the present.

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Pyotr Kapitsa

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Born: July 8, 1894
Died: April 8, 1984 (aged 89)
Bio: Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леони́дович Капи́ца, Romanian: Petre Capiţa was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.
Known for:
  1. Experiment, theory, practice (1980)
  2. High-Power Electronics (1966)
  3. Kaptiza in Cambridge and Moscow
  4. Collected Papers of P.L. Kapitza

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