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Sir Jack Balwin
(8 Aug 1938 - )
chemist who originated Baldwin’s Rules for ring closure reactions in organic chemistry.
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Science Quotes by Sir Jack Balwin (1 quote)
The number of stars making up the Milky Way is about 10¹¹ or something like the number of raindrops falling in Hyde Park in a day’s heavy rain.
— Sir Jack Balwin
From review of Harlow Shapley, Of Stars and Men in 'Man and his Universe', New Scientist (12 Mar 1959), 594,
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- 8 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Balwin's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
