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J. Norman Collie
(10 Sep 1859 - 1 Nov 1942)
English chemist who was a research assistant to William Ramsay at University College London, and eventually become Dean of Chemistry (1913-28) there. He was also an avid mountain climber and a prolific inventor. His research included work on the inert gases.
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Science Quotes by J. Norman Collie (2 quotes)
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
— J. Norman Collie
Preface to A. W. Stewart, Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry (1908), xiii.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
— J. Norman Collie
Preface to A. W. Stewart, Recent Advances in Organic Chemistry (1908), xiv.
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- 10 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Collie'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) -- 
