Edward Victor Appleton
Title: Sir Edward Victor Appleton
Birthdate: September 6, 1892
Birthplace: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: April 21, 1965
Occupation: Physicist
Profile: Awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics. Proved existence of ionosphere. Knighted in 1941.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Victor_Appleton
Number of Quotes: 6
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject
for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I may have been described as an atheist, but I am not. I do not subscribe to the conventional forms of religion, but I am no atheist.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
The history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of
individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.
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