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Maurice Loyal Huggins
(19 Sep 1897 - 17 Dec 1981)
American chemist.
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Science Quotes by Maurice Loyal Huggins (1 quote)
The most stable arrangement for an assemblage of molecules is one in which the component atoms and groups are packed together so that (a) the distances between neighbors are close to the equilibrium distance, (b) each atom or group has as many close neighbors as possible, and (c) there are no large unoccupied regions. In other words, each structure tends to be as 'close-packed' as possible, consistent with the 'sizes' of its component atoms or groups.
— Maurice Loyal Huggins
'The Structure of Fibrous Proteins', Chemical Reviews (1943), 32, 198.
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) -- 
