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Joseph Kennedy
(30 May 1916 - 5 May 1957)
American chemist and physicist who was one of the four co-discoverers of plutonium. He led the Chemistry Division of the Manhattan Project.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Kennedy (1 quote)
We are dabbling in what will always be considered the blackest of black magic. The day will come when people will want to string us up from the nearest lamppost.
His first remark at the first meeting of the Reactor Safety Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (1947).
His first remark at the first meeting of the Reactor Safety Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (1947).
— Joseph Kennedy
Quoted in Edward Teller with Judith L. Shoolery, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (2001), 265.
See also:
- 30 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Kennedy'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) -- 
