John Henry Carver Quotes

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• Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
• In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are…
• I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
• My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
• My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject.…
• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the…
• The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of…
• I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to…
• Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a…

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