Physics
- Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902-1914)
- William Henry Bragg (1915-1923)
- Edward Andrade (1928-1950)
- Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950-1972)
- Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975-1987)
- John Finney (1993-1999)
- Gabriel Aeppli (2002-present)
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Famous quotes containing the word physics:
“Now the twitching stops. Now you are still. We are through with physiology and theology, physics begins.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.”
—Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)