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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“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The labor we delight in physics pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)