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“May every young scientist remember and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.”

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Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

Physicist, Chairman of the British Atomic Energy Authority, Nobel Prize in Physics winner, made significant contributions to nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. more

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